The print process will be done 100% manually with using the natural vegetable fast colours derived from plants like Chiruveru, Chiranji, Mangesta, Maderoot, Karakkaya, Jajaku leaves, Indigo Bee, Wax, Karakkaya flowers, Alum, Myrobalam juice, Gum, Jaggery etc., The wonderful effect of the arrangement of colours gives them an artistic value of a high order and impart special durability to the cloth and considered to be highly hygienic.
This is fabric made into patchwork squares, by cutting madras plaid fabrics into square strips, and stitching them together to form a patchwork fabric, which is a plaid patchwork. Madras Patchwork fabric is made in India and the city of Madras in TamilNadu, India was the place where madras fabric originated long ago. Madras fabric is plaid fabric that is made by dyeing yarns into various different colors, and these are handloom woven or machine woven to form a fabric that is a criss cross of several colors of yarns.
Batik is produced by applying wax onto cloth which resists the dye that the cloth is then dipped in and so reveals the contrasting design. If more colours are needed, the process will be akin to that of mud-resist printing and tie dyeing, where once the cloth is dipped in one colour dye, more wax is applied to the areas that are to be left the first colour and dipped in again to create three colours and so on.
Wonderfully rich coloured real indigo dyed cotton in a range of plains, stripes and checks. Washed and pre-shrunk and suitable for curtains, upholstery and garments.
Korukkupet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu