Ajrakh
The piece
Ajrakh is cloth printed with carved wooden blocks and dyed in indigo and madder over fourteen to sixteen steps, made in Sindh, in Kutch and in Barmer in Rajasthan. Its pattern is a grid of stars and medallions. Ajrakh knots one at the scale of a room, indigo and madder under an iron black outline, the ivory dots in silk, the registration a little off wherever a block landed crooked. Shown as a rendering. Woven to order in Jaipur.
- Materials
- Hand-spun New Zealand wool with mulberry silk accents, cotton warp
- Dimensions
- Made to order in any size. Shown at 8 × 10 ft (about 2.4 × 3 m)
- Density
- 6 to 14 knots per inch
- Lead Time
- 6 to 10 months on the loom
- Origin
- Jaipur, Rajasthan
