Ajrak

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AJRAK

An Art of Block Printing.

Do you the Name Ajrak .The culture cloth of Pakistan province name sindh.

AJRAK a name given to a unique form of block-printed shawls found in Sindh , Pakistan. These shawls display special designs and patterns made using block printing by stamps.The process of Ajrak block printing takes time, team work and special skills. The three main tools of a block printed fabric are the wooden blocks, the fabric and the dye. It can take five carvers up to three days to create an intricate design in a block of teak for use as a printing block. The printers may use up to 30 blocks to complete a design.It can take twenty people, each doing a separate task, up to eight hours to prepare a single block printed garment. With all this, the results can only be unique and it seems this process of block printing has been used for centuries.

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