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GaufrageGaufrage is a deep engraving process that renders 3-dimensional patterns on various substrates which include leathers of all description, and fabrics of all contents and descriptions. This art was believed to be invented by the Japanese in the 14th/15th Century. It involved deeply cut wooden blocks, hence the process today that we know as “block printing”. The Japanese called this effect and procedure “blind printing”. The title came from the fact that you could not see the rendering of the pattern on the cloth since the engraved portion of the wood was facing downward. Further evolution of this process occurred both in France and Italy during the Renaissance. Since then we here in the United States have taken this antique process to the level of a fine art. Amid our archive of 300 historically accurate patterns we produce the broadest line of its kind in the world. |