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This week I finally received the package of books that I had made to send to Ahmedabad a few days before leaving. These books on textile art, all purchased ' Art Book Center, a small but stocked library of downtown. In particular, I focused on the texts that tell the tradition of Block Print, a print style of fabric that I could see up close in Kutch. In the village of
Ajrakhpur fact, about ten kilometers from Bhuj, the capital of the district, lives the family of Ismail Mohammad Khatri, one of the most important and famous artisans in the art of Block Print.
Ismail Khatri's ancestors moved here four centuries ago, attracted by the Sindh to make themselves available to the then ruler of this part of India, a king-Jadeja Rajput lineage. Evidently, the rulers had much love textile art, because many families of weavers, dyers and printers settled in Gujarat at this time, just as the Khatri clan, but also many artisan families of Maharashtra, who created the tradition of silk Double Ikat Patola (will also speak of this style).
It seems that the prince had given to the Khatri Jadeja plots of land near the rivers, which are necessary to wash the dyed fabric, and this group had also exempted from paying taxes, to facilitate their business. The fact is that since the style Ajrakh (or Block Print) typical of these families of craftsmen became famous and very popular, but also from the principles of the common people of these lands, which began to use it to visually characterize their membership to different castes and communities.

Ismail Khatri, a guest really delicious, always ready to offer us a very good buffalo milk chai, he explains that his is the ninth generation of printers Ajrakh (his brother is involved in this work) , while the two boys are the tenth generation, which luckily was able to maintain the traditional craft.
Recently, after the crisis of the traditional textile industry of the '60s, interest in these ancient techniques of fabric production has increased considerably, so that could add Ismail Khatri, on plaque at the entrance of his company, the title 'Dr.', due to an honorary degree conferred by the University of Leicester, UK, in 2003.
addition to this award for his work and his commitment, Dr. Ismail has received many other awards, travels extensively to meet with scholars and researchers around the world, hosted in his home state television crew from the Indian del National Geographic e di molte altre emittenti internazionali. Insomma, è davvero una star, ma con la semplicità e l'accoglienza di una persona d'altri tempi.

E con il nipote sulle ginocchia, Dr. Ismail ci spiega la tecnica Ajrakh di stampa di stoffa di cotone, seta e lana, per la quale i Khatri utilizzano colori naturali (...anche colori sintetici qualche volta, per la verità) derivati da fiori, foglie, frutti, radici, cortecce e corazze di insetti.
Uno stile molto complesso in cui la stoffa viene ripetutamente sottoposta alla stampa con l'uso dei blocchi di legno intagliato, con 4 o 5 passaggi di colore, ciascuno dei quali necessita di diverse fasi di imprimitura, color bath (hot or cold), rinsing, drying. In the next post
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