BAGRU AND DABU ACCORDING TO DHEERAJ CHHIPA

Dabu refers to a printing and dyeing technique on cotton fabric specific to the Bagru village (an industrial town traditionally dedicated to textile dyeing and printing in Rajasthan, India). It is a deposition technique in which wooden blocks are soaked in a mud - dabu - printed by hand on the fabric in patterned repetitions and then dipped in the pot of indigo. Once they have dried in the sun and the indigo has been transformed from green to blue by oxygenation, they are washed in the river and the dried mud is removed, leaving the areas in contact with the mud undyed. Bagru is not only the name of a village, but also the name of the technique of printing on fabric with natural dyes that originated there. The village gives its name to the technique.