Art of Handblock printing.
Today everyone loves to wear stylish and trendy clothes including ethnics and indo-westerns. Some people loves to wear printed clothes while some are embroidered clothes. For the printed ones, the textile printing industry grabs the limelight totally. We can see various beautiful printed cloth fabrics in the market with various trendy patterns and designs. The best part of these textile printing is Handblock printing.
This amazing technique of printing fabrics has been using from several years in Rajasthan, especially in Bagru. In the hand block printing, the process of printing is done with the help of teak wood blocks in order to print the fabrics. This is actually a famous art of printing the fabrics. This process used to be done very creatively with the help of several colours and amazing ideas of patterns and designs. In this various floral patterns are available, various Rajasthani and other traditional patterns are used and many more ideas are there. People from all over the world loves to wear these hand block print fabric.
This technique of printing fabrics has been originated from China and now following in all over East Asia. In this process of textile printing, the starch is removed from the cloth first. It used to be washed and dried in the sunlight. After that a colour paste for printing used to be prepared and that paste would be applied with the help of teak wood blocks on the fabric and after that it gets dried in the sun. With the help of this, various colourful and beautiful patterns are designed on the fabrics. You can wear these on all occasions whether it is family function or other events and parties too.
This process is not only used on clothes but also on bedsheets, pillow covers and various cloth categories. It actually increases the grace of the cloth. So just go with this amazing cloth printing art and try it once.


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