The history of the indigo workshop of the Trnka family leads back to the beginning of the 19th century to the village of Záriečie and is connected with the name of the renowned indigo master Jozef Bednárik. In 1894, after his death, his workshop was inherited by Jozef Trnka, the grandfather of Stanislav Trnka, who switched from his original profession as a tanner to become an indigo craftsman. In 1898, he wisely relocated the workshop to Púchov, where he owned a house conveniently located near the Váh river. His dye-house annually produced around 10,000 meters of indigo-printed canvas. In 1939, the craft of indigo printing was passed down to the sons after their father. The eldest, Alojz, led the workshop until it was nationalized in 1951, taken over by a communal enterprise. Fortunately, he was allowed to stay on as its director. Out of his three sons, only Stanislav remained loyal to the family tradition. Along with his father’s experience, he inherited woodcarving molds from the old workshop in Záriečie, expertly carved forms made of pear wood from his grandfather Jozef, and a rich collection of forms designed for machine printing with a perrotine. Additionally, he possessed family recipes for preparing the paste and indigo solution, among other secrets passed down in every indigo-printing family as their most sacred tradition. After nationalization in the 1950s, the scope of Stanislav Trnka’s workshop paradoxically expanded geographically. Besides traditional customers from nearby villages such as Púchov, Ilava, and Považská Bystrica, the workshop’s clientele grew to include customers from defunct workshops from Važec to Jakubany. Here, Stanislav Trnka (who worked in the workshop alongside his wife) received support from the Folk Art Production Union (ÚĽUV), which provided the necessary templates and forms. Although the workshop operated under the organizational leadership of communal services until 1972, ÚĽUV financially assisted it, for example, by purchasing an electric dryer. Full collaboration with ÚĽUV began after the dissolution of the communal enterprise in Púchov. It proved successful on both sides, combining Stanislav Trnka’s craft expertise and artistic sensibility with the innovative solutions of ÚĽUV designers (Eva Holáková, Eva Kováčová, Jozef Bajus, Janka Menkynová, Anna Pallová). Indigo printing evolved to new applications in modern interiors and fashion collections. During years of intensive collaboration, Stanislav Trnka produced up to 20,000 meters of indigo printing per year. Products from his workshop became a prominent part of collective ÚĽUV exhibitions at home and abroad. An article about the Púchov workshop was featured in a book on indigo printing in Europe and Japan, published in Berlin in 1993. According to demand, Master Trnka also assisted in teaching aspiring artists at art schools, worked with the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, and collaborated with art and design schools in Ružomberok and Kremnica, as well as art teachers. Toward the end of Stanislav Trnka’s active career, interest in indigo printing in Slovakia waned, leading him to gradually step back from production. None of his three sons took over the business, despite being capable due to their father’s training. It was only his grandson Peter Trnka, a graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, who revived the old family craft, albeit in new premises in the newly established workshop in Ivanka pri Dunaji, where the youngest of the Trnka generation of indigo printers now resides