Design Gallery
Dying Process of Two Colours
The Craft of Tying and Dying Textiles
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Soaked white clothes.
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Dipping white clothes in green coloured water solution.
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Draining out water from the dyed clothes.
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Putting dyed pieces of clothes in a row for wrapping.
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Placing a plastic sheet over the clothes.
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Bicycle tyre- tubes are used to seal the wrapping.
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Wrapping the tube tightly.
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Wrapped tube then tied using strips of tyre- tube.
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Removing the tyre-tube.
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Removing the plastic sheet.
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Unwrapped, dual coloured piece of cloth.
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Leaving for drying under a shed.
In this bright and colourful city of Rajasthan, apart from the old, huge ancient forts, which hold a history of hundreds of years, there are narrow lanes of ‘Khanda-Falsa’, that hold the secret of Bandhej, an old and famous process of tying and dying the cloth.
It is amusing to see the entire process, which has a whole sequence of various steps, including tying and dying. Be it marking, making colours, bleaching, everything is done with immense concentration and entirely by hand.
For more details: http://www.dsource.in/resource/bandhej-work-jodhpur
