The history of block printing in India reaches back thousands of years, but it witnessed exceptional growth in Rajasthan, specifically near Jaipur. Jaipur Morni, a spin-off of the workshop preserving the legacy of these printing techniques, continues the techniques that are both inherited and creatively modified through the ingenuity of local makers under the patronage of the Mughal royal family. The practice combines wooden block carving, natural dyes, and a synchrony of resist-printing methods like Dabu and beeswax, preserving both technique and symbolism. Understanding its iteration of this printing is to witnes ... Read more »