Resist Dyeing
TIE-DYE
Due to nature of this craft, it's easier to develop distinguished array of designs applying the technique at yarn, fabric or even apparel stage creating unique designs merging many colours and hues. At Anuprerna, we are developing tie-dye crafts using Organic Certified Azo-free dyes, on a range of fabrics made
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HandSpun Khadi
LINEN
Linen is one of the oldest textiles to have been woven. It is a strong, durable fabric made from the fibres of the flax plant. Though expensive than cotton, it has come to be appreciated again due to its desirable properties, especially for the summer months. At Anuprerna, the linen
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Hand Printing
Screen Printing
Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. Traditionally, the process was called screen printing or silkscreen printing because silk was used
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Hand Printing
HAND BLOCK PRINTING
Woodblock printing (or block printing) is a technique for printing text, images or patterns on textiles and later paper. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples
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Indian Silk
MATKA PEACE SILK
Matka Silk is a rough handloom silk fabric made from the waste Mulberry Silk (Bombyx Mori) without removing its gum (sericin) part. It is largely obtained from the states of Karnataka and Kashmir but its spinning is done in the Malda and Murshidabad districts in West Bengal. It comes
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Indian Silk
MULBERRY SILK
Mulberry silk is the highest quality silk available for purchase. The unique thing about Mulberry silk is how it is produced. Mulberry silk has its
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Indian Silk
KETYA PEACE SILK
Ketya Silk is a fabric native to the Indian state of West Bengal. It has a unique and coarse tactile textue due to varieties of yarns like Matka, Khadi, Tussar being woven into the raw coarse fabric. This produces wonderfully rich texture.
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Indian Silk
TUSSAR SILK
Tussar Silk , also often referred to as ‘Wild Silk, Tassar Silk, or Tusar Silk is an exquisite thread obtained from a wide winged moth that is yellowish-brown in colour. The scientific name of these moths is Antheraea Paphia and they are a part of the group known
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Indian Silk
HANDLOOM JACQUARD
Jacquard is a specially woven fabric created using a Jacquard loom and various materials such as cotton, polyester, silk and acrylic can be woven to create them.
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Resist Dyeing
HAND PAINTING
While
printing designs onto fabric most likely originated in China about 4,500 years
ago, it was on the Indian subcontinent where hand-blocked fabric reached its
highest visual expression.
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