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Bagru, a beautiful art that is handed down through the generations is in the forefront of the fashion today. India has been considered as herald in the art of textile printing. Especially, Indian weavers are the pioneers in weaving and dyeing. One such conspicuous Indian textile printing is Bagru. Bagru, an ancient traditional craft of natural dyed hand block printing on textiles, is a creative process that has been flourished as a fabric and has seen a major revival over the last two decades and moved away from its rural level to international level. Bagru is a traditional hand block printing technique with rich natural colours, elaborate designs, floral prints and resist styles. Today, Bagru printed fabrics are creating sensations internationally. Basically, hand block printing is a simple process, but can create sensational prints with rich designs and vibrant colours. Such typical prints are called as Bagru prints. The Prints of Bagru, unlike other prints, involves in different kind of printing textiles. The unique method for printing employs wooden block in it, so it is also named as wooden block printing. In this process, the design of desired, is engraved on to the wooden block and then carved block is used for replicating the design in the preferred colour on the fabric. The history and origin of Bagru lies in the town ChippaMohalla. ChippaMohalla (printer's quarter) is the area for those, who are interested in textile printing. One can walk into the quarter, where people are always engrossed with dyes and blocks. Rajasthan is the major hub of Bagru prints. Bagru is the place of Raiger and Chippa communities, where the Chippa people are involved in printing since 100 years, where as Raiger people are famous for processing and manufacturing. The Chippas are also adept in the art of preparation and use of vegetable dyes, and indigo dyeing. For fabrics silk and cotton, different dyes like rapid fast dyes, indigo sol and pigment dyes are used. The major tools require for Bagru printing are, wooden blocks with wooden handles and cylindrical holes, wooden trolleys with racks, dye trays. Earlier natural dyes were used in block printing but today they have been replaced by chemical and artificial colours. The main colours used are red, the colour of love, yellow the colour of spring, blue as in Krishna, and saffron of the yogi and the Standard colours are black, red, orange, brown and mustard. Colour variation is little difficult and while printing it is not possible to gauge the quality or depth of colour. Bagru printing is done mostly on the fabrics with large canvas such as sarees, quilts, bed covers, though pillow covers, turbans and other smaller items of cloth also are taken up. Themes are generally floral prints, geometrical shapes etc. Bagru printed saris would be a good choice for festivals, grand parties and special invites. Designer Bagru saris of floral patterns and embellished with kundans, sequins and beads, looks very gorgeous. The three-centuries-old tradition of block printing is still alive only because of Bagru weavers. Unnati Silks, one of the largest ethnic Indian Online Shops provides an exquisite collection of ethnic sarees and salwar kameez from traditional pockets across India. Latest Bagru printed saris with exquisite designs are available for online sale. Products are dispatched within 24 working hours of placing the order. We have free shipping and Cash on Delivery (COD) facilities for domestic retail; worldwide express shipping covers most countries across the globe.
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