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Block printing workshop in Kaladera

1/29/2015

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Another wonderful day spent off the tourist path enjoying the hospitality of locals. Kaladera is a village about an hour outside Jaipur where a family has organized a traditional block printing business, combining the separate talents of printers, dyers, and overseers. Our workshop started with breakfast in the business family's home and included printing two scarves, touring the village, dancing at an election victory celebration (the winner a 19 year old!), lunch with the family, and observing the dyeing of out scarves. The food was among the best of the trip. These kinds of experiences will be the memories that could bring me back to India. I'll let the pictures tell the story

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Front "yard"
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Stacks of carved blocks in workshop
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Drying resist patterns before dyeing
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Indigo dye bath
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Drying in the sun atop dirt, weeds and dung.
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Color everywhere
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We engaged in numerous high fives and lots of eye contact but smiles were not forthcoming.
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Hostess with her daughter and niece
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Ginni S
6/7/2018 05:54:26 am

Hello..do you HV the contact details of the kaladera business house..in case we want to visit or contact them

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    Dana, estrogen-deprived and textile-hungry, ventured from the Pacific Northwest to Central Asia in 2013.  Now the lure of bandhani & woodblock take her India.

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