By Katie Laughridge
From Tribune News Service
In a day and age where most everything we purchase is mass-produced, there’s something magical about the beauty found in the slowness of handmade goods. Block printed textiles are lovely in part because of homespun nature of the craft.
I fell in love with the art of block printing on a trip to India many years ago. My goal was to see the intricate process in person, but sadly a stomach bug prevented me from doing so. Thankfully, I was able to bring back a set of block printing blocks from the trip that I still have today….