Get to know art of fabric dyeing, Kalamkari

Kalamkari or chintz-making is among Iran’s oldest handicrafts which has been kept alive to date.

Dating back to the Ilkhanate era, the art is a kind of traditional stamp printing on cloth mostly silk, cotton or linen.

At the beginning, in the Kalamkari profession, the industry used a brush to draw on cotton and silk fabrics; making beautiful and inspiring fabrics that were widely used in aristocratic clothing.

However, as the demand for such fabrics increased and more speed of action had to be used in the production of such fabrics, the industrialists in this field turned to stamp printing.

The colors used in this art, are totally natural colors made of walnut shell, tragacanth, alum, grape juice sweet pomegranate and etc.

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