Description
About the Artisan: Rudra Natural Craft was founded in 2019 by Atul Shreshthi. Atul is a young patron of the generation-old craft of block printing. He is providing employment to more than 20 families and most of them are women. The product range includes hand block printed saree, dupatta and yardage of kota doria, tussar silk, mulberry silk, cotton and modal etc.
About the Craft: 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 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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