Block Printing
- Block Printing is a method of hand printing on textiles with inks.
- Printing designs onto fabric originated in China about 4,500 years ago.
- However, hand-blocked fabric reached its highest visual expression in the Indian subcontinent.
- Block printing is one of the oldest stamping methods in history and one of the best known in India.
- Indians possessed unparalleled expertise in the secrets of natural plant dyes, particularly with mordants (metallic salts that both create color and allow it to adhere to fabric).
- In addition, a kind of mud resist-printing, called dabu, flourished in parts of Gujarat.
- Thus, a series of combinations of mordant and resist stamping and dyeing enabled Indian printers to create uniquely complex designs.
- The creations of Indian artists reached around the world.
- The designs adorned the palaces of South East Asian kings, the courts of Mughal emperors and even travelled to the far-flung capitals of Western Europe.
- Colors on screen appear brighter than actual.
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