Ajrakh
Ajrakh printing is done with carved out wooden blocks by skillful hands using vegetable dyes sourced from natural, sustainable materials like turmeric, madder, pomegranate skins, indigo, dates and more. True to the meaning of their name, which means ‘fill with colour,’ the 'Khatri' community in Kutch bring fabrics to life with colourful floral, geometric motifs taken from their natural surroundings.
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Green Black Ajrakh is a form of traditional hand-block printing and resist dyeing using natural dyes and printed mordants. The award-winning family of Khatri Abdul Jabbar Mohammad, ninth-generation block printers in Kachchh, Gujarat, India, preserves this most-complex tradition of textile products.
How do you “move” an entire village?!
Dozens of families from Dhamadka decided to “move” the village to continue to practice this art of the block-printing called ‘Ajrakh’. Thus was born the village of Ajrakhpur. Abdul mostly uses natural pigments: indigo, henna, turmeric, pomegranate, iron oxide … The printing is done by hand with hand carved wooden blocks. Several different blocks are used to give the characteristic repeated patterning.
