Turquoise And Leaf Green Chanderi Cotton Silk Saree With Block Printing
Styled With Blouse From Our Blouse Collection
- Fabric: Chanderi Cotton Silk with Zari Border
- Print: Block Printing
- Color: Turq And Leaf Green
- Blouse: This Saree Comes With A Running Unstitched Blouse Piece. Refer Blouse Look InNext Image
- Saree Length & Width : 6.3 Meters X 1.1 Meters
Handcrafted In India
Care
- Dry clean only
Chanderi is a lightweight, sheer texture and fine feel fabric that makes it apt forsummer.Chanderi fabricis produced by weaving insilkand golden Zari in the traditional cotton yarn that results in the creation of the shimmering texture. Chanderiis a blend of cotton with lightsilkand some zari.
Origin - TheChanderi sareeis composed of fine silk finished smooth texturedcotton. Chanderi sari is a traditional sari made in Chanderi,Madhya Pradesh, India. Chanderi, occupies a special place because of its centuries old weaving specialty of producing finely textured fabrics ofsilkand cotton embellished with zari woven work, and more specifically because of itssaristhat have been patronized by royalty.
Technique - Handblocking is an ancient method of textile printing, renowned for it's exotic designs in vibrant colors on fabric. In this method, woodenblockscarved with intricate details are used to manually print beautiful designs that usually cover the entire length of a fabric. Block printing can be carried out beautifully on a variety of fabrics but most suitable match is cotton or cotton linen. The characteristics of these fabrics have a specially affinity towards different types of dyes and pigments. Block-printing craft is practiced in twostates of India - Gujarat and Rajasthan.
There are different styles of block printing, the most renowned ones are
Bagru, it is done by printing dark or colored motifs on a cream or dyed background. This process involves the use of natural mordants – likehardaand alum – to capture the natural colors of the print on the fabric using our pattern blocks.
Dabu, has light colored motifs on a dark ground. It is a mud resistance method, mud akakaali mittipaste is used to block print the pattern. After dyeing the fabrics, the motifs covered with the mud print remain uncolored, while the rest of the fabric takes on the hue of the dye.
The key difference between the styles are color combinations and motifs. For example, the color of the cloth on which the motifs are printed is also another differentiator. InBagru, the cloth has either a cream base or a dyed base, whileSanganeriprints have a white base.
