Issue #007, Winter, 2021 ISSN: 2581- 9410 The production of Ajrakh cloth in Kutch presents an exceptional story of the determination of the artisans to […]
A Legacy of Ajrakh- Abdul Jabbar Mohammad Khatri
Article Keywords: AJRAKH
Colours of Kutch
The dyeing and printing of fabric has been practiced on the Indian sub-continent since ancient times. Originally centred on Sind, part of Pakistan since Partition in 1947, the province is referred to as suvasa (‘the maker of good cloth’) in the Rig-Veda Samitha, written in the second millennium BC. The Romans were familiar with the Sindi cloths […]