Bagh

The name of this beautiful printing technique comes from its area of production, a small village in central India, in which a few families produce these bold and vibrant compositions. Hand block printing with great precision and imagination, the printers work with a natural bright red and a black dye on cotton fabrics. Working only with this particular colour combination, they take extra care in cloth preparation and finishing, which involves 15 process stages. The result is strong print definition, strong solid colour application and a pleasing suppleness in the cloth. Some special bagh compositions may contain as many as 1300 separate block impressions in a bedspread.