Ajrakh Prints - a tradition of centuries seen in modern-day fabrics
Ajrakh Prints - familiar with the term? You see it everywhere, on all nature of fabrics. Ajrak prints have found their way on turbans, waist sashes, shawls, dupattas, chaddars, sarees, home furnishings and shawls. The range keeps widening as and when it catches the fancy of the traditional practitioners of the art. Indian fashion designers have effortlessly fused traditional ajrak with modern tastes.Anyway what is the meaning of Ajrakh?A fabric that has derived its name from the sanskrit word ‘A-jharat’ or ‘that which does not fade’. ‘Azrak’, the Arabic word for blue could have also played a role in its etymology because of extensive use of indigo in the process.Early settlers in Sindh and India in 3300 BC, who lived along the Indus river, found it conducive for the growth of cotton and indigo plants that grew close by on its banks.
Ajrakh Prints - familiar with the term? You see it everywhere, on all nature of fabrics. Ajrak prints have found their way on turbans, waist
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