Textiles Techniques- learn and practice

For many years pattern and colour have been added to generally plain fabric through the application of paints and dyes. The method utilization has run from finger painting with regular colours to contemporary electronic printing. A few textile techniques are accepted to bring luckiness, some to shower rain, some ensures the wearer from abhorrence spirits, some tell descriptive stories of festivals and some basically identify a particular clan. The way of the textile techniques, however, have been dead set less by the accessibility of colouring operators than by the practices, legends, convictions and styles of the societies that deliver them.

Various traditional textile techniques in India

• ·         Khadi fabric: - Khadi fabric is delivered when an artisan turns strands of cotton, silk or fleece into strings on a hand-worked turning wheel and afterward weaves these strings on a hand-worked weaving machine to make cloths. In numerous remote Indian towns, this is still done today similarly as it has been carried out in its older time.
• ·         Bandhani: - Bandhani is one of the world's most established material beautification strategies, is still made in remote towns of the Indian states such as Gujarat and Rajasthan. Bandhani, whose name is inferred from the Hindi word for tying up, is an aged manifestation of tie and colour.
  
• ·         Hand Loom Weaving: - A large portion of Asian Eye's scarves is woven with age-old custom of hand-operated looms. Since the developments of the weaving machine are composed by human hand and eye, the ability and vitality of the weaver are exemplified in these amazing and uncommon crafted works.
• ·         Ikat: - Ikat is one of the most seasoned types of fabric decoration. It is a close general indigenous weaving style basic to numerous world societies. Actually, pricing of Ikat is mainly due to its magnificence and special look.
• ·         Hand block printing: - Wooden pieces, produced using generally accessible wood, are hand-cut with a rehashing theme. The pieces may be rectangular, square or round. Hand block printing is one of the most punctual known systems for embellishing a bit of fabric with various hued pattern.
  
• ·         Neptul tie-dye: - The hands of talented crafts people bring contemporary magnificence and effortlessness to the time-regarded system of Neptul tie-dye. In a little workshop, cotton fabric or fine silk is precisely washed, then laid on a worktable and creased lengthwise in preparation for its dyeing. The maker uses a sponge to apply, normally three different shades of procion colours in alternating fabric stripes. The whole material is left to rest until the colours have gotten colourfast, then washed and put to dry in the daylight. In the following stage, Neptul colours are utilized to add green, blue, black, orange or red.
• ·         Kantha: - A people craft weaving system localized in Bangladesh and North-eastern India, the art of Kantha has been polished for many years. Its name is derived from an ancient Sanskrit word for rags, and it is one of the original recycling arts. Hence, these are some of the traditional textile techniques used in India.