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About the Artisan: SEWA Ruaab is a women-owned artisans? producer-company with over 160 grassroots women shareholders. It was born out of SEWA, India?s largest informal women workers movement, in 2009 by the home-based embroidery workers in Delhi and traditional silk weavers in Bihar.
About the Craft: Handblock printing is believed to be originated in China and was introduced in India around the 12th Century. Bagru printers use a technique called dabu in which a mixture of black clay, acacia gum, spoiled wheat flour, limestone, and cow pies is printed onto the fabric. The fabric can then be dyed and left in the sun to dry. When the dabu is washed out the printed portions of the fabric are left undyed. Despite the availability of synthetic dyes, the village has kept up its tradition of using natural dyes alive. These dyes include indigo blue, madder root red, pomegranate yellow, harda yellow, syahi black, and a green obtained by mixing harda and indigo.
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