Scarves! Shawls!

Bombay, under the British, was once home to hugh textile mills, but now what one finds are “cottage industries” fighting to keep alive. In this world of digitilized printing the ancient craft of hand blocked printing is disappearing quickly.

We have sourced our way to one such textile producer. A second generation company with some of the most beautiful pure silks, and pure wools—all done with hand blocked printing.-that I’ve ever seen!. The wools are impossibly soft! The hues in the silks so vibrant you want to drink them in.

Ms Gupta was so patient with showing and teaching us all that she could about the processes, and the fabrics that go into making her products so beautiful.

Following a designers drawing, the block maker cuts small blocks by hand from hard teak wood, one block for each color in the design.

To print a 90″X 108″ bedspread printers have to stamp up to 1,400 times, with different blocks of as many as five or six colors.

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There are 45″x45″ squares, as well as 72″ long scarves in both 24″ and 14″ widths! . . . .