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Blueprint by Matej Rabada


Title: Blueprint by Matej Rabada
Category: Singularities
Country: Slovakia/Orava
Period: XX Century
Provided by: Comenius
Source: Archive Blueprint Matej Rabada
Photo Gallery: www.modrotlacmr.sk

Description:

The young designer devoted himself to the traditional 400-year-old craft of blueprint production. Blueprinting is a textile technique of patterning canvas, which uses the principle of negative printing. The pattern is printed with a special mixture, called pap, on a white canvas, which is then dyed in cold indigo dilution. Pap during coloring prevents the penetration of the dye to the fibers. After removing it, a white pattern appears on a blue background at the end of the coloring process.


The Blueprint brand Matej Rabada focuses on hand-made production of the honest, indigo-dyed blueprint. The portfolio of designs consists of the traditional blueprints, as well as the author's motifs. The hand-colored blueprint also serves as the basis for the clothing creation of the brand. It aims to show that even more than 400 years of technology can find applications within current trends in design. The resulting product, therefore, does not seek to copy the past but represents the brand's current view of the traditional blueprint craft.


The clothing production is one of the local brands that have taken the path of slow fashion which pays attention to quality and hand-made processing, whether when dyeing blueprints or the actual creation of clothing. Thanks to this, production and creation are also respectful of the environment and nature, from which it draws inspiration.
 



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