Kalamkari Sarees 3.19

This store is started with Kalamkari Sarees & Dress materials.

Kalamkari or Qalamkari is a type of hand-painted or block-printed cotton textile, produced in parts of India.

The cotton/silk fabric gets its glossiness by immersing it for an hour in a mixture of Myrobalans and cow milk. Contours and reasons are then drawn with a point in bamboo soaked in a mixture of jagri fermented and water; one by one these are applied, then the vegetable dyes. After applying each color on to the motif, the Kalamkari fabric is washed after drying. Thus, each fabric can undergo up to 20 washes. Various effects are obtained by using cow dung, seeds, plants and crushed flowers to obtain natural dye.