Ingredients

Process

1. Raw Fabric

2. Cow dung, Soda Ash, Sesame Oil

Prepared solution of given moderants in water and kept the raw cloth for 2 days in the solution. After washing in sufficient floating water and constant sun bleach in open sunlight, the shape of cloth is attained. This process is called Sun Bleach-cum Scavering process.

3. Myrobalan

Scavered cloth dyed is in myrobalan solution and dried in open sun by spreading over sandy grounds.

4. Alum, Red Soil (Geru), Natural Gum

Concentrated thick paste of these moderants is prepared in water and printed with traditional wooden block Singh Badh.

5.

Printed cloth has been beaten on stone by dipping in water twice or thrice to ensure that there is no gum in the printed portion of the cloth. This process is called Degumming Process.

6. Manzeet (madder), Ali Ki Lakdi,
Debudiya Flowers,Shakoor

De-gummed cloth is dyed in the hot solution of these moderants till the required red shade comes.

7. Alum

Red dyed cloth is dipped in Alum solution. Alum has changed the pinkish group shade of the cloth in yellowish.

8. Manzeet (madder), Debudiya Flowers

Alum dipped cloth is re-dyed in the hot solution of these moderants till the ground shade of the cloth turns to dark pink.

9. Beedhan (sour flour of wheet eaten by creatures) Natural Gum, Lime, sand Black Soil

Pink dyed cloth is printed with Dabu (thick paste prepared with these moderants is called Dabu), with the wooden block all over the red printed butty. Another name of Dabu is Mud Paste.

10. Pomegranate

Dabu printed (mud resist) cloth is dyed in pomegranate extract. The ground shade of the cloth changes from pink to pinkish yellow.

11. Natural Indigo

Pomegranate dyed cloth is now dyed in natural indigo in indigo vat. Now the ground dye of the cloth has changed to dark blue.

12. Pomegranate

Indigo dyed cloth is now re-dyed in pomegranate extract. Thus, the color of the cloth changes from blue to olive green.