blocks of wood on which are carved the decorations are in some cases babool , a type of acacia very strong and invasive method that has colonized the countryside of Gujarat, but instead uses the teak, which has better features. The wood must be aged a few years before being cut and engraved, and the finished block may be used for about 2000 meters of printed fabric before being discarded-or-restored.
Khatri I obtain supplies of Ajrakhpur often blocks in the village of Pethapur, where the family lives of Maneklal Gajjar, a famous carver of block printing, 1928, that still carves with skill and taste the blocks considered superior.
Ajrakh In the style (but remember there are other styles of traditional print block print, typical of Rajasthan, for example, as the Balotra or Sanganer) is thought there are a dozen different basic motifs, then combined to create some 200 fantasies. Today, however, young people add new patterns and original designs in combination with traditional ones. The prints are imprinted on both sides of the cloth, and this increases the quality of the fabric and its beauty is still worn.
The drawings represent a stylized, fruits such as figs, grapes, almonds, but also the jalebi and laddu (sweets), and then flowers (jasmine, marigolds, sunflowers ), coins, peacock feathers and a variety of geometric patterns. The designs are printed in a symmetrical manner and are sometimes mixed with the reasons for the technical Bandhan (tye and dye technique , which I'll discuss in another post).
The traditional colors are black, white, red and blue, but recently have also been introduced yellow and green, meet market demands.
The colors are made from natural raw materials: in fact, the recently renewed interest in ancient techniques and methods of dyeing sustainable pushed the artisans as the Khatri family to recover the systems of time and exploit them. They are sometimes also used synthetic dyes (appreciated for the brilliance of the colors), but ultimately it seems to me that the request for this part of the market of hand-printed fabrics you are directing much more on the traditional systems.
Reds for example obtained from the root of madder ( manjishta , rubia cordifolia), but also dall'alizarina, a synthetic dye created more than one hundred years ago. In both cases it is necessary to use a mordant (alum) to secure the seal. Sometimes to get a nice bright red, you can use the cochineal, an insect pest of plants, but is increasingly rare and expensive.
Blue is given nell'indaco baths, yellow is obtained with the peel of pomegranate, but also with the turmeric, black with a mixture of iron, jaggery (palm sugar) and rubber-free from the overlap indigo and yellow.
Every family has its secret alchemy then, recipes that are the result of years of experience, practice and aesthetic taste.
The indigo color is perhaps the fairest of them all. E 'obtained by maceration of leaves of Indigofera Tinctoria , a shrub that grows well here, although over the years cultivation has decreased drastically. Dyers buy it in pigs, which are dipped in chopped and ground-basins sometimes real small-wells that receive the fabric to be dyed.
The liquid solution is a beautiful emerald green and it is only when the fabric is stretched out in the sun that oxygen causes the transformation of color from green to blue.
course non ho potuto restistere e ho fatto un po' di acquisti: ma davvero non si sa cosa scegliere, รจ tutto meravigliosamente bello e speciale!
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