I consider myself a Japanophile. In 2018 I visited Japan for the first time after years of anticipation. I had finally found the perfect travel companion in my boyfriend - who is just as positively obsessed with Japan as I am - since I’m not one to travel solo, unless it’s for work purposes. In the first week we arrived we already agreed that after this trip we would come back to Japan as soon as we could. And this year we made it back, in March, right in the middle of the global COVID-19 outbreak. We hesitated for a long time if we should travel at all, but the situation in Japan seemed fairly mild and under control, except for big events and most museums everything was still in operation. At the same time the situation in Europe was getting worse, so we felt it might be even better to escape to Japan than to stay in The Netherlands, where we might go under lockdown, which had just happened in Italy.

On the 29th of March I gave my very first TED talk at TEDxRotterdam, about rethinking the way we colour our clothes.

Yesterday I gave two short circular textile printing workshops at the DWGWD festival , a Dutch sustainability festival for everyone who wa...

January means fashion and textile trade fair month. The 8th Future Fabrics Expo in London presented the latest developments in sustainable...

Often my clients ask me about the fabric printing process. Some of them are starting a brand for the first time. Others have been producing...

As I wrote earlier, I took part in the class Textile Academy at Waag Society in Amsterdam for 16 weeks. Each week I learned new tools, ...