Bagru Printing Kessawear

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Bagru Printing

• Introduction
• Facts
• Conclusion

2
Introduction

• The time-honored and traditional Bagru Print is
  not only prominent among the people of Rajasthan,
  but it has also found its way through the
  country.
• According to legend, the art of Bagru printing
  was born when the Chippas settled on the clay of
  the Sanjariya River, which is considered to be an
  ideal component for hand block printing.
• The difference is that it contains a mineral that
  makes the printed cloth washed in its water, as
  well as a mud bank used for the resistance
  printing method called dabu.

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Facts

• The block printed by dabu is very different from
  traditional Bagru printing with wider lines.
  Block printing is a manual process and blocks the
  impression of the print is a repeated form that
  is expected to be the next block, which
  contributes to the natural elegance of the piece.
  
• As the world awakens to environmental awareness
  and eco-friendliness, this captivating and exotic
  art is often forgotten to recognize day by day.
  The handprint is, therefore, an environmentally
  friendly art that deserves recognition and
  recognition, and that best enhances the beauty of
  nature itself.

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Facts
...

• Workers apply the kaali miti paste, a dark sludge
  that blocks the printing patterns, and use the
  patterns that were previously printed with black
  dyes. The blocks used here are covered with
  sawdust to ensure that the colors do not run off
  the pattern printed on the block when the dye is
  later immersed. After the craftsman has dipped
  the blocks in the natural dye to produce the
  desired print, they are placed on a cloth.
• The printing process requires a lot of precision,
  as you align and measure motifs, distances, and
  other subtleties with a skilled hand and an
  experienced eye.

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Facts
...

• The wholesale market for Bagru printing materials
  is creating more commercial demand means that it
  must work with several masters of the bagru
  community to ensure that each of them can offer a
  unique experience. They want to promote the art
  of block printing and to get people excited about
  technology, but there is a real business behind
  it.
• The market is seeing traditional block printing
  replaced by screen printing and synthetic inks
  replacing traditional natural dyes. Another style
  called dabu creates bright, colored motifs with
  clay printing and transfers them to a colored
  background, using blocks of wood to hide the
  print from coloring. This technique, called
  "dabu," creates a bright motif with a black
  background and white background using mud -
  resist the prints. A technique called "Dobu"
  creates the bright coloration of a motif on a
  dark or blue background by using the mud against
  pressure.

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Conclusion

• The rhythm and harmony of the process leading to
  a perfect pressure could be similar to that of a
  musician creating something equally perfect.
• The market is seeing traditional block printing
  replaced by screen printing and synthetic inks
  replacing traditional natural dyes.