Blaudruck with Franziska Lutze

My sister introduced us. Sometimes that's all it takes.

Franziska Lutze and I found quickly that our sensibilities align — the way we think about craft, about restraint, about what a garment should do. From that mutual recognition came a collaboration.

The first step was a visit to Einbeck, where Franziska works at the Einbecker Blaudruck workshop — founded in 1638, recognized as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. The woodblocks alone are worth the trip: centuries old, worn smooth by generations of hands. We printed with them together, and something clicked.

Part two happened closer to home — in the garden behind the shop on Torstrasse. Using the traditional Pap resist paste, we stamped fabrics by hand. Shirts, scarves, T-shirts. Bold and precise. The kind of process that gives nothing back to shortcuts.

Then back to Einbeck for the final step. The stamped fabrics go into the dye baths — and this is where the logic of Blaudruck reveals itself: the Pap-printed areas resist the indigo. After dyeing, the paste is washed away in rinse baths, and the pattern appears — white, clean, exact — against the blue. No ink. Just resistance and time.

A small run, made carefully. More to come.

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