Bagru- The Indian Indigo Culture: Rajasthan, a hub of traditional Indian textiles and handlooms, is also home to indigo dyes and printing, where artisans have been passing on this craft for generations, truly encapsulating its beauty and spirit. Indigo has always had a national flavor for us Indians, be it in Indigo Movement or with natural textile usage. One such indigo legacy is Indigo Bagru. Know the mysteries and intricacy attached to Indigo Bagru, plunge your hands into vats of the rich blue gold and have something you will be surely proud of.

The indigo textiles can never get out of style and its beauty in all its glorious forms. An age old-craft, indigo is one of the few forms that perfectly reflects the beauty of traditional and contemporary through its evergreen colour and ability to adapt to all silhouettes.

Hand Block Printing on textiles refers to the technique by which carved wooden blocks covered with dye are repeatedly pressed along a length of cloth to create patterns. The beginnings of the art of ornamenting textile fabrics by the stamping or printing on of colored designs are lost in antiquity.

CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN BLOCK PRINTING

It is the essence of India and the crafts that make India stand out in the world. However,

the numerous arts and crafts are slowly dying and so have to be renewed and brought back to life. Hand Block Printing is such an art which can be used for making every piece of cloth, every design unique and different from others. This can never be possible by using automated machinery wherein 100s of metres of fabric would come out in the same design and color. It provides sustainable livelihood to many local families. It is skill passed through many generations, and has traditionally been done using Natural Dyes and should be preserved. What makes this technique unique is the fact that the design has to be first carved onto the wooden block by hand, and then executed on the fabric. There is no doubt that factory-printed textiles are often cheaper and perhaps more color fast compared to block printed fabrics. However, block printed fabric reflects human labor and sensibilities of the craftsman which no machine made fabric can ever do.

The crease line disappears very quickly once the rug is laid out.