Khadi fabric
- A versatile fabric, cool in summer and warm in winter.
- Khadi is a hand-spun and woven natural fibre cloth promoted by Mahatma Gandhi as swadeshi (self-sufficiency) for the freedom struggle of the Indian subcontinent.
- The first piece of the hand-woven cloth was manufactured in the Sabarmati Ashram during 1917-18.
- The coarseness of the cloth led Gandhi to call it ‘khadi’.
- The cloth is usually hand spun and woven from cotton.
- However, it may also include silk or wool, which are all spun into yarn on a spinning wheel called a charkha.
- The balance between tradition, modernity and sustainability provided by this fabric is what has made Khadi a fashion favourite since time immemorial.
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.
- This product is Hand Block Printed.
- Being hand printed, the fabric may have slight irregularities in colours and prints.
- These irregularities are the hallmark of all block-printed products and make each unique piece one-of-its-kind.
- Colors on screen appear brighter than actual.
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