Ajrak Block Print
Fabrics
They brought new looks and techniques, that they had both gained from traveling all over North America. After over twenty years in the industry Glenda retired to raise her fourth child.
Fabric
They brought new looks and techniques, that they had both gained from traveling all over North America. After over twenty years in the industry Glenda retired to raise her fourth child.
100 x 112 x 0cm
Fine quality ajrakh block printed natural dyed Cotton.
Textiles printed on both sides with intricate woodblock designs, and dyed in indigo and crimson madder Process: Use of resist allows for multiple dyes, their colours fixed with mordants and deepened by repeated immersion and exposure to air Provenance: Created for nomadic pastoralists by Khatri community in Sindh, Pakistan; Kutch (Khavda, Dhamadka, recently Ajrakhpur) and Rajasthan (Barmer) History: Fragments found in C.11–14 Fostat (Egypt); practised by Khatris since C.16 Motifs: Mostly geometric, aligned with diagonals and medians of squares (moru, peacock; jileb, jalebi), or dispersed centrifugally along diagonals (dabuli, jewel box; ishq painch, love intrigue) Status: Local custom lost to cheaper substitutes (polyester, screen printing, synthetic dyes), but growth of urban and overseas market has enabled some families to continue and renew tradition.
Real Handicraft provide you Hand Made Ajrakh Block Printed with Natural Dyes Dress Material to our custmers with diffrent Colour combination and designs.