Fabric #797487

We are offering kalamkari fabric. kalamkari processblock printing for black color and printing of alum for red colors as a mordant` dyeing with red coloring material and boiling for red color, painting with brush for yellow color on white or grey ground are the prevailing techniques of machilipatnam kalamkari. printing blocksthe blocks are made by carving various designs on piece of teak wood. The designs are carved by small tools by block makers who re specially trained for it. the brush or penthe brush is devised by sharpening a bamboo piece to taper to a point like a skewer, which is split at the point for about an inch. A sponge made of rag, hair or wool is ties an inch below the point in the shape of ball and the fingers manipulate this ball soaked in the required color. The flow is free and easy leaves no smudge. processbleaching of cloththe cloth is soaked in buffalo or cow dung solution an squeezed a little and kept wet overnight till next morning washed in flowing water and spread over water weeded. Which is supposed to give brightness and polish? this process goes on for a week till the cloth is fully bleached. applications of myrobalamthe cloth thus bleached is then soaked in myrobalam solution. After the myrobalam solution is evenly dyed all over, the cloth is taken out and dried in hot sun light. The application of myrobalam will help the process of block printing with kasim (iron acetate) to develop black color. block printingfirst the outline of the designs will be printed on the cloth by using the wooden block for black color with kasim (iron acetate), karam (alum) for red as a mordant. washingafter block printing with kasim and karam, the clothes are kept for 2 to 3 days. They are then washed in flowing water to remove the gum and unfix excess alum. dyeingthe colouring materials madder root and jajaku leaves are mixed with water and boiled. Into this the above mentioned cloth is put and worked for 1 to 11/2 hours and then squeezed and washed in flowing water, so that red and black colors are made permanent. bleachingthe cloth should be bleached again as described in process with buffalo or cow dung solution. The printed with karam (alum) and (kasim iron acetable) retain the red and black color while the rest of the cloth is rendered white. starchingto facilitate the yellow painting on it, the cloth is made stiff by treating it in starch solution (boiled rice water). Fresh buffalo milk is also added to the starch solution to prevent colors from running and also to give a whiter and leathery surface for the cloth for painting. application of yellow colour on the above treated cloth, yellow color is applied by brush wherever necessary the yellow color is prepared from the myrobalam flowers. The yellow color will be applied by using pens made of detepalm sticks. application of alumafter completing painting of yellow color, the cloth will be treated in alum solution to fix the colors permanent the clothing is now dried up.

Kalamkari is the ancient art of painting, we are well versed in this traditional art of paintings. Kalamkari craft is very old. This art knew its apogee in the wealthy golconda sultanate, hyderabad, in the middle ages. kalamkari art has been practiced by many families in india and has constituted their livelihood. kalamkariis the ancient art of decorating cloth with the aid of a kalam or pen. A term mainly used to describe cotton fabrics patterned through the medium of vegetable dyes by free-hand painting and block-printing, this category of fabric now covers a wide range of textiles produced in many regions of india. The term kalamkari is however applied to the fabrics produced in the southern districts only because the ancient tradition of patterning with the kalam is still practiced here. Even where the fabric is block printed the kalam is used to draw finer details and for application of some colours. The mughal who patronized this craft in the coromandel and golconda province called the practitioners of this craft "qua-lamkars" and the distinctive term kalamkari", for goods produced in this region persists even to this day.

We are offering hand block printed fabric. Kalamkari is the ancient art of painting, we are well versed in this traditional art of paintings. Kalamkari craft is very old. This art knew its apogee in the wealthy golconda sultanate, hyderabad, in the middle ages. kalamkari art has been practiced by many families in india and has constituted their livelihood. kalamkari is the ancient art of decorating cloth with the aid of a kalam or pen. A term mainly used to describe cotton fabrics patterned through the medium of vegetable dyes by free-hand painting and block-printing, this category of fabric now covers a wide range of textiles produced in many regions of india. The term kalamkari is however applied to the fabrics produced in the southern districts only because the ancient tradition of patterning with the kalam is still practised here. Even where the fabric is block printed the kalam is used to draw finer details and for application of some colours. The mughal who patronized this craft in the coromandel and golconda province called the practitioners of this craft "qua-lamkars" and the distinctive term kalamkari", for goods produced in this region persists even to this day.

we are offering ikat fabric. ikats ikat-is a type of weaving where the wrap, weft or both are tie-dyed before weaving to create designs on the finished fabric. great care must be taken in tying resist areas with water repellent material such as bicycle inner tubes cut in to strips. the precision of the wrapping determines the clarity of the design. after wrapping, the warp threads are dyed. when finished and unwrapped, the areas under the ties have stayed the original color. numerous colors can be added after additional wrappings. designs generally are worked out on graph paper. great care must be taken in putting the wrap on the loom, keeping all the treads in position in necessary for the design to work. the natural movement during weaving gives ikat designs a feathered edge, which characterizes this technique. in the ikat tie and dye process, the designs in various colors are formed on the fabric either by the wrap threads or the weft threads or both. the threads forming the design are tied and dyed separately to bring in the desired color and the simple interlacement of the threads produces, the most intricate designs that appear only in the finished weaving. the orrisa ikat is a much older tradition that andra pardesh or gujarat, and their more popular motifs as such are a stylized fish and the rudraks bead. here the color is built up thread. in fact, orissa ikat is known now as yarn tie and dye. in andra pradesh, they bunch some threads together and tie and dye and also have total freedom of design. some say that ikat was n innovative technique, first created in india, which was later carried to indonesia, the only other place in the world with a strong ikat tradition. intricate wrap-ikat fabrics have been produced by a unique method of wrap effects creating a beautiful muted look of a water effect prints. to create an ikat fabric, the artisan first stretches warp yarns on a frame, and binds selected areas with raffia. the warp bundles are then dyed, producing resist patterns wherever the dye cannot penetrate. then selected areas are unbound, other areas are bound, and the yarns are immersed in a second dye bath. finally, the bindings are removed, the wrap yarns are placed on a simple back strap loom, and the fabric is woven with a plain weft. through this painstaking process, sophisticated textile art is produced with both drama and subtlety. using dyes the process of resist dyeing, tie-dyeing and yarns tie-dyed to pattern before weaving were the basic techniques of indigenous dyeing of village clothing.

We are offering voile cotton fabric. we are manufacturer and exporter of voile cotton grey, dyed, and yarn dyed fabric, in 80s x 80s and 100s x 100s counts, hand loom and power loom fabric, we are specialized in tie and dye in voile hand loom fabric,