Neel & Geru
0 impressionsBlock: Jaal
Each collection is one ink and one carved block. Pick one and the block on the cloth above changes with it, and the shop shows only what is printed in it.
Twelve pieces, each printed by hand, so the repeat wanders a little and the ink sits heavier in one place than another. Hold the loupe to the cloth to see the weave.
12pieces
N° 01Dabu Indigo
Band collar · wooden buttons · side pockets
Mud-resist printed by hand, then dipped in the indigo vat four times until the blue goes deep. The pattern stays the colour of the cloth.
N° 02Dabu Indigo
Spread collar · full sleeve · coconut buttons
A lattice of jaal printed across the whole length before it is cut, so the trellis runs unbroken over the shoulders.
N° 03Dabu Indigo
2 m × 70 cm · hand-knotted fringe
A light stole for over a kurta or a jacket, printed in a wide resist and dyed until it is the blue of a late evening.
N° 04Bagru Syahi
Band collar · hidden placket · side slits
Keri printed in syahi, the iron-black of Bagru, over a field washed in harda so the white turns the colour of old ivory.
N° 05Bagru Syahi
2.4 m × 1 m · printed border both ends
The long cloth for weddings and pujas, printed in keri with a black border at each end, laid over one shoulder.
N° 06Bagru Syahi
2.5 m unstitched · enough for a kurta
An uncut length for your own tailor. Printed edge to edge, so the keri falls the same way however it is cut.
N° 07Sanganeri Lal
Band collar · fabric buttons · side pockets
Small alizarin-red butis, set half a block apart the way Sanganer printers have always set them, on a fine bleached khadi.
N° 08Sanganeri Lal
2.5 m unstitched · enough for a kurta
A fan buti in madder red, printed close so it reads as texture from across a room and as a flower close up.
N° 09Sanganeri Lal
30 × 30 cm each · hand-rolled hems
Three offcuts from the printing table, hemmed by hand. One red buti, one floral, one in whatever the table had that week.
N° 10Geru Border
Band collar · printed hem and cuffs
A plain white kurta with one printed border at the hem and the cuffs, in a rust from geru earth and iron.
N° 11Geru Border
Mandarin collar · rust border at the placket
Pistachio-dyed khadi with a narrow rust border down the placket and a scatter of tiny butis on the body.
N° 12Geru Border
1.6 m × 75 cm · fringed ends
The everyday cloth: shoulder, neck, head or hand towel. Bordered in rust, softer with every wash.
Nothing printed in this ink right now.
A length passes through spinners, weavers, carvers, printers and the dye vat before a tailor ever sees it.
Cotton from Kutch is carded and spun on the charkha. The yarn is a little uneven, and those slubs are what you feel.
The yarn goes to a handloom in Bikaner and comes back as a bolt of khadi, washed and beaten in the river.
Every block is carved from teak in Pethapur: an outline block, a fill block, sometimes a third for the second colour.
The cloth is pinned flat on a long table and printed block by block, one press of the palm each, eight hundred to a length.
Dabu lengths go into the indigo vat; the rest are steamed, washed in the river and dried flat in the sun.
The workshop in Bagru is open to visitors on weekday mornings — you can press a block yourself. Write to us about sizes, a wedding order or a length printed to your choice of ink.
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