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#thread on #blockprinting, India’s heritage. Do read and share. @silkmarkindia @csbmot @smritiirani @TexMinIndia. Block printing or छिपाई का काम is one of the oldest crafts of Bharata being continuously practised, with its history going back to the Sindhu Saraswati civilisation. 
It is believed that the tre-foil design on the shawl of the statuette of the Priest King found in Hadappa excavation is an example of block printing. Our ancestors have known the art of dyeing and printing a fabric with desired motifs using wooden blocks for thousands of years.
Ancient Indians knew how to extract dyes from plants and minerals, they also knew the use of mordants to fix dyes. fragments of cotton with block prints from India found at Fustat in Egypt go back to the 16th century and are examples of Ajrakh and Bagru block printing from India
