Woven Thistle - Kalamkari Cotton Bandana

• Material: 100% Light Weight Voile Cotton • Print: Hand Block Printed using Vegetable dyes • Size: 21" x 21" • Wash Care: Hand wash in cold water. 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐢 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: Kalamkari is a traditional art of fabric printing using vegetable dyes. The printing is done using wooden blocks chiselled from teak wood by master craftsmen. This complex and highly skilled art of printing fabric is practiced by certain families in Andhra Pradesh, India. Pomegranate peel, iron scrap, turmeric, Jaggrey, salt etc are used to make the vegetable dyes. The cloth is soaked in Myrabalam Juice before printing. After printing each color the fabric is boiled using leaves, flowers and barks and sundried to resume printing. The printed fabric is finally washed in the flowing waters of river Krishna. The flow of the water determines the brightness of the colors. 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫: The actual product color may vary slightly due to photographic lighting sources. Hand block printing requires experience, hard work, talent and accuracy; and yet small imperfections are bound to occur when printing is done by hand rather than machine.