New Ajrakh – Ready for Spring
Light and bright and ready for Spring – a colourful offering of Ajrakh block printed shawls.
Ajrakh is the name of a cloth that has been blockprinted in the traditional method using natural dyes such as indigo, madder, and pomegranate. The ajrakh process is a long one, involving several steps of washing and scouring the cloth, then additional steps to mordant the cloth, and still more steps as each colour is either directly blockprinted or resist blockprinted with natural dyes. The order is of utmost importance as the layers of colour are built up and the traditional geometric ajrakh patterns emerge.
The ajrakh process is a long one, involving several steps of washing and scouring the cloth, then additional steps to mordant the cloth, and still more steps as each colour is either directly blockprinted or resist blockprinted with natural dyes. The order is of utmost importance as the layers of colour are built up and the traditional geometric ajrakh patterns emerge.
THE AJRAKH ARTISANS
In this short clip Jabbar Khatri carefully places wooden printing blocks to create a geometric design. Read more about the Ajrakh artisans here.
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