Bagru
The piece
In Bagru, outside Jaipur, printers work in colours drawn from the earth: syahi, a black of rusted iron and jaggery, and begar, a red from madder root, stamped on cream cloth. Bagru is a length of that cloth knotted in wool, small diamonds, crosses and dots row after row in black and red, a striped border round them, and every block's small mistake kept. 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
