Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Quest for the sparkling white cotton - Home - livemint.com
India’s finest variety, the low-yielding Suvin, has all the right properties, but its production has dropped sharply—from 10,000 bales in 2006-07 to 2,000 bales last year—because of high production costs,
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Quest for the sparkling white cotton - Home - livemint.com
On the CIE Index, an international standard for whiteness, Indian cotton fabric achieves a rating of 145; American and Egyptian fabric, by comparison, achieve ratings of 155 and 160, respectively. The gap may not sound massive, experts say, but visually the difference is huge, leading to the lower-rated cloth being rejected as inferior.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Some More Notes on Ajrakh
1. True Ajrak or Ajrakh is only worn by men
2. Ajrak printing can be applied to one side of the cloth called Ekpuri. Bipuri is double sided printing.
3. As these designs conform to Islamic design principles, they must not depict human or animal figures.
4. Saudagiri is the most highly documented genre of block design.
5. Riyal are those designs in Ajrak which are built around circular motifs.
6. True Ajrakh blocks are square, must matchup on all four sides, and also reflect to allow the reverse of the cloth to be printed.
7. Simples form of Ajrak has only one shade of red and blue. To apply additional shades of red, blue, yellow and green is called Meenakari.
You can read a brief description of the Ajrakh process here.
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