Bagru
Hand block printing from the village of Bagru in Rajasthan, with natural dyes and a mud resist.
Also: Bagru print
Bagru is a village near Jaipur in Rajasthan, known for hand block printing on cotton by the Chhipa community. Wooden blocks carved with small flowers, leaves and geometric shapes are pressed into dye pastes, and indigo, a red from alum and iron, and a black from iron are the usual colours. The cloth is washed in running water, which makes a clean river important to the craft. A Bagru print often uses a mud resist, called Dabu, for the dark blue ground and sharp white outlines. Bagru is sold as yardage and also as cotton sarees.