Introduction of bagru print 

The bagru print is the world famous print of jaipur rajasthan .the bagru prints in the past have been mainly used by the local population , particularly by the feamiles .now days its very populer in international market as well as indian market . mostly in bagru print use natural colours sources from tree and flowers and many more other source .

History of bagru prints

Bagru is a small village in jaipur rajasthan . bagru is 30 km far from jaipur pink city . bagru print is a traditional process of handblock printing on all kind of textile fabric like cotton , silk , khadi , chiffon , linen any many more fabrics .

The hand block printers known as chhipas . the chhipa community doing hand block printing  with natural dyes and colours past 300 years . according to the legend . some familys of chhipas were brought by the thakur of bagru to settle in bagru . after that so many chhipas family comes to bagru form different different places from india .the sanjariya river , with its origin some 5 km form the bagru the shanjariya river water flow suitable for printing . thats why its great place to do printing and dying .

Types of bagru hand block print 

• Dabu print 

• Bagru print 

Process of bagru print 

The bagru printing use  two colours red and black . a few other colours somtimes used for printing . 

Both red and black colours are make from chhipas community at home . we will explain  you colour making process in next blogs . 

Red colour called begar paste.

Black colour called syahi paste. 

Both the syahi and bagar paste use for printing . 

First washed the fabric .after that , it is treated with harda (myrobalan) to prepare it for printing .