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Design Resource
Kalamkari Painting
The Art of Fabric Painting using Natural Links
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Preparation of Cloth
Initially the cotton cloth, locally known as Gaada is immersed in water overnight to remove the impurities and starch in it. The washed cloth is then treated in a solution which is made by mixing Myrobalan bud paste (Karakapinde locally), Myrobalan flower paste (Karakapoovu locally) and buffalo milk. For a length of 10 meters of cloth, 4 liters of buffalo milk is used. The cloth, after immersing in milk solution for 5 to 10 minutes is taken out and squeezed to remove the excess solution and it is allowed to dry under sun for 2 hours.
The cloth obtains the yellowish color after dyeing. This process is done to smoothen the cloth and also to avoid the spreading of die color and outline color.
