Softest and light weight organic cotton in a soothing mauve color! The subtle pink polka dots and white floral prints layered on top add elegance ; readymade blouses sold separately.

  Specification:

• Category: Ladies
• Weave: Mulmul/ Muslin Handspun Handloom
• Craft: Bagru/Dabu Hand block print
• Material: Cotton
• Length:  5.4 meters
• Blouse Piece: Yes
• Body: Mauve w/ White and pink floral motifs and polka dots.
• Border: zigzag print in White
• Pallu: Paisely and abstract prints in White
• Fall and Picot edge: Yes

Description

Muslin/ Mulmul is a super fine quality fabric. Muslin is one of the lightest, hand spun and hand woven fabrics in the world. The finer counts of muslin (upto 500 Khadi count/ 300 English count) is woven by the skilled native hand spinners & weaver families. The whole process from spinning to weaving involves anywhere from 16 to 20 steps! 

Bagru is a hand block print tradition of the Chhipas community; a fifth generation of a family of dyers and printers settled primarily in Bagru, Rajasthan, India. It requires perfect hand -eye coordination and precision. The master printer decides the number of blocks and sequence of printed layers. The block is then cut to size and the carver uses tools to recreate the pattern on the block. Every print is made by hand and visually aligned by the printer. It often requires at least 4 to 5 blocks to print different parts of a pattern. Traditional Bagru prints use dark color on a cream or dyed background. 

Dabu is a mud resist-technique. Dabu resist paste is used to print the design, then it is dyed, often in blue indigo and once again dried. The motifs made with the mud resist remain uncolored while the rest of the fabric is dyed. The resulting cloth’s color is the other way around – White/bright prints on a dark-dyed background.