Natural Vegetable Dyes
The printing is done using vegetable dyes which are made of sources like flowers, laal mitti, pomegranate leaves, haldia etc.
Wooden Handblocks
Printing done by applying vegetable dyes onto blocks and manually printing on 100% Cotton Fabric
Art, Fashion, Heritage
Small things often cast long shadows. Take the town of Bagru for instance: a tiny village between Jaipur and Ajmer, this loom town masters the art of BlockPrinting using vegetable dyes. Bagru has been home to the Chhipa — a clan whosename comes either from a Gujarati word meaning “to print” or from combining twoNepal Bhasa words: ‘chhi’ (“to dye”) and ‘pa’ (“ leave to bask in sun”)
