These beautiful fasbrics were inspired by the relief printing technique in printmaking known as “wood cut”. In Europe, Woodcut is the oldest technique used for old master prints, developed somewhere around 1400 when paper techniques were used for printing on cloth.  The process of wood block printing is sometimes considered to be the most artistic and the earliest, simplest and slowest of all printing techniques.

In this process, a design is drawn on or transferred to a wooden block. A separate block is required for each color in the design. Because fine details are so difficult to cut in wood, they tend to wear down quickly or break off in the printing process. The block cutter carves the heavier masses first so that the finer, more delicate work is not damaged during the carving process. Because the printing process is usually done by hand, it yields beautiful, unique and highly artistic results.