Traditional cloth

Traditional cloth

Clothing in India varies from:

 region to region depending on the ethnicity, geography, climate and cultural traditions of the people of that region

Community

•The Chhipa community has been hand block printing for about 350 years,

•The Bagru Chhipa community migrated from Jaipur and settled in the Bagru area near the Sanjaria River because it provided the necessary water for printing and chhikni mitti, an important ingredient in Dabu mud.

bagru

• Bagru, a small village town in Rajasthan is situated at a distance of 32ksm east of Jaipur.

• It is known for its traditional processed of hand block printing of textile

cloth

•soft and extraordinary cloth were  selective cotton as the raw material to enhance the quality of our product.

•Apart from this they experiment with other kinds of fabric also.

                  motives

•The designs are based on traditional patterns of our novel culture.

•Bagru prints are characterized by circular designs, as well as linear and floral patterns.

                      colour

•Bagru prints are done with natural colours.

•Bagru prints, the colors are picked carefully. Each has a separate significance.

• For instance, red is the color of love, yellow of spring, indigo of Lord Krishna, and saffron of the yogi (seer)

            blocks

•The wooden blocks that are used are made of teak wood.

           Process 

•Scouring-The fabric that comes from mills of handloom sector

•       Tannin- locally called ‘Peela Karana’ ‘Harda’Washed fabric is treated with myrobalan (harda) which contains tannic acid.

•Printing (mordanting)- locally called ‘chapai’

•Ageing-locally called ‘Sukhai’

•Washing- locally called ‘Dhulai’

•Dyeing (fixing of color) - locally called ‘Ghan Rangai’
Sun-bleaching- locally called ‘Tapai’
       Changes

•The traditional ‘motifs’ of Bagru have however under gone change over the years. The entire population of ‘chhipas’ which were earlier engaged in production of all local varieties of printed fabrics mostly of ‘fadats,indigo fabric’, ‘angochha’ (small towel), ‘bichhauni’ (bed spread), rajai (quilt) are now engaged in production of sophisticated ‘ kaftans’ ‘wraparounds’ (skirts), ‘midis’ etc.

•Natural dyes have now been largely replaced by chemical dyes.