Petals Hand Block Printed Table Cloth

Six seater table cloth in pure cotton, hand block printed with tree of life motif and floral edges in shades of blue and black.

Wash separately for the first wash and with like colours on subsequent washes.  Use mild detergent to retain colour.

On a single road at the edge of Bagru (Rajasthan, India), hereditary carvers, mostly fathers and sons, squat inside tiny open studios, chiseling designs traced onto teak blocks. In the centre of town, families of printers stand before long tables covered with fabric, dipping blocks into colour and stamping them with a thump thump of the hand to ensure a strong print on the fabric.  Block prints are done by eye, and telltale signs of the human hand, even imperfections, are part of the ineffable humanity and beauty of the craft. 

Between outside influences and the diversity of the subcontinent’s own indigenous communities and tribes, India has yielded one of the most magnificent pattern vocabularies for the past 200 years. SOURCE:  The New York Times