Ever Growing textile art of Block Printing

20-Oct-2020 BY Admin

India is a country known for its enchanting arts & crafts that attracts tourists from over the world to witness the unique and traditional artistic richness of this country. Out of all the ancient arts, Block Printing in Rajasthan is the one that one should experience for once in a lifetime. Making use of a carved piece of wood for printing the fabric in the Block Printing process imprints an amazing design or motifs on fabric or paper. In the early days of printing textiles, the process was initially used to print a book while today it has become widely popular to create awful designs on the fabric with the help of a block specifically made for printing purpose.

What makes Block printing famous?

In textile industry, Block printing in Jaipur is popular on the account of innumerable contributing factors like - 

• Simply ease to execute the process 
• The fine finishing in the fabric makes it accurately look beautiful with elegance of detailing prints on the textiles. 
• Countless opportunities to match mix the different block designs in many different colours on the same fabric. It makes large canvas fabrics like sarees, salwar kameez, bed sheets, remain stupendous. There are a large number of wooden blocks that are always kept aside for using it precisely on the intended patterns and designs. 
• Making of a new block with a new design is easy and quick.
• Wooden blocks used in this method are of good quality and so they have its durability which makes the printing look simply beautiful and elegant. 
• Intricately sharp detailing for complicated designs can be etched out in the blocks which is only possible with using wooden blocks. Sharp or pointed things are used for filling in the blank area between the outlines. 
• The sharp point on the block serves as a guide for the repeating impressions so as to change the complete effect. 
• The wide and extensive range of color choices can make the design look simply awful and attractive. 
• Block prints look amazingly great on some selective fabrics like silk, cotton, sico, etc.

Being the most famous textile printing art of India, Jaipur Block printing has made everyone amazed by its unmatched grace and excellence. The delicate detailing while printing a fabric takes a lot of effort to make it perfect. Today this beautiful textile printing art has become one of the everlasting trends in the fashion industry. If you are someone who is willing to learn this age-old printing art, then one thing that you can do for learning it from the skilled artisans is to get an experience of Block Printing Bagru Workshop where you witness the entire process on a factory visit. So, plan your half day or full day in Jaipur as embarking the two most popular villages Bagru and Sanganer for your workshop tour.