BlueHandStudio

Welcome to our Indigo Printing Blog!

This blog features posts about our small business, BlueHandStudio, and our lino printing methods. We work in linocut block printing with natural indigo pigment on Irish linen. Indigo printing is a method with a long history and we hope to share a little of our love for this pigment and the techniques used to create, print with and reduce it. This blog focuses on lino printing methods, block cutting, textile printing, indigo and printmaking history. Feel free to subscribe to our newsletter to get notified when we post! 

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Concerning Tobias Lang and the Art of the Englischerblaudruck.

The old master enjoyed having the boy in the workshop every day for an hour or two after school. During the past year that this boy had been coming in the late afternoons to help out, another older boy had been working for a salary at the tiering box, a boy the master liked well enough, but one who spoke little German, and to the master’s disappointment, one who showed little interest in learning any of the calico printer’s skills other than that for which he was being paid—hardly a promising candidate for an apprenticeship...

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Concerning Tobias Lang and the Art of the Englischerblaudruck.

The old master enjoyed having the boy in the workshop every day for an hour or two after school. During the past year that this boy had been coming in the late afternoons to help out, another older boy had been working for a salary at the tiering box, a...

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