Kathy and I left Amber and headed for Bagru....
a village about 30km from Jaipur
the Chhipa community in Bagru has been hand block printing for about 350 years,
developing a unique process with natural vegetable dyes...
the Chhipa community in Bagru has been hand block printing for about 350 years,
developing a unique process with natural vegetable dyes...
the Bagru printing process and the Dabu printing process are the techniques used
the Dabu process or the mud printing process....they really use mud...
when printed they cover it with saw dust.....
left to dry out in the sun for at least 24 hours...
then it's usually dyed in indigo....
if you don't know, indigo are crushed blue berries....
they did screen printing also...
fabric prepared for the screens...
the other technique was the Bagru printing process in which the fabric is yellow dyed in harda solution..harda is extracted from fruits of the myrobalan plant...
printed with natural red colour....
flowers and herbs are used in the process....red kasis, dahura flowers, alizarin etc....
twisting the skirts before another round of dying....
I'm not sure what he did at the factory....but he wanted his picture taken !
after the visit to the factory we we left the car and went for a walk in the village
interesting as always
Did we see anything special ?
check out my next post and I'll show you
oh wow, i wished i had been with you...i have to come back to india! lovely photos, thanks for sharing!
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