Blaudruck/Modrotisk/Kékfestés/Modrotlač, resist block printing and indigo dyeing in Europe

UNESCO: Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity - 2018
URL: ich.unesco.org/en/RL/01365
Description: Blaudruck/Modrotisk/Kékfestés/Modrotlač, which translates as blueprint or blue-dyeing, refers to the practice of printing a dye-resistant paste onto a cloth before it is dyed indigo. The paste prevents the dye from penetrating the design. To apply the designs onto the cloth, practitioners use hand-crafted blocks up to 300 years old, featuring regionally-inspired patterns, generic designs or Christian motifs. Nowadays, the practice is mainly conducted in family-owned workshops, run by the second to seventh generation of printers, and traditional knowledge is still based on (mainly family-owned) journals dating back to the nineteenth century.
Country(ies): Austria; Czechia; Germany; Hungary; Slovakia
© Austrian Comission for UNESCO, 2017
Duration: 00:10:19 - Support: USB key (0136500005)