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Jever / Neustadt in Holstein (dpa) - The centuries-old blue printing process, a technique for textile finishing, is only used in a few workshops and museums in Northern Germany.

There are craft businesses in Jever (Friesland district), Einbeck (Northeim district) and Neustadt in Holstein.

According to Unesco, there are only a little more than a handful of such establishments in Germany.

The blueprint has been recognized by Unesco as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity since 2018.

Blue printing is a dyeing process that was widespread in Central Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries and is mainly used on linen, cotton or silk.

With industrialization, the handicraft lost its importance.

Today, knowledge about this is often passed on to descendants in family-run businesses.

In Schleswig-Holstein, for example, the Koch family has been in the textile business in Neustadt since 1803 and operates one of the last remaining textile hand printing factories in Germany.

Probably the youngest blueprinter in the Federal Republic of Germany works in Jever: The 24-year-old Sabrina Schuhmacher recently took over the blueprinting workshop in the middle of the old town.

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Blueprint Jever

Press release by the German Unesco Commission on the designation of the blueprint process as an intangible world heritage

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Blueprint JH Koch in Neustadt

Blaudruckerei Einbeck

Blueprint in the Scheßel local history museum