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2. Woodblock printing - Wikipedia

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   In India the main importance of the technique has always been as a method of printing textiles, which has been a large industry since at least the 10th century. [37] Nowadays wooden block printing is commonly used for creating beautiful textiles, such as block print saree, kurta, curtains, kurtis, dress, shirts, cotton sarees. [38]

3. Textile industry in India - Wikipedia

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   There was textile trade in India during the early centuries. Cotton fragments from Gujarat have been found in tombs of Egypt, indicating the existence of export of Indian textiles to Egypt during the medieval era. [10] Large quantities of north Indian silks were traded through the Silk Road in China to the western countries(130 B.C.E. - 1453 C ...

4. Calico - Wikipedia

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   Early European calicoes (1680) were cheap plain weave white cotton fabric, or cream or unbleached cotton, with a design block-printed using a single alizarin dye fixed with two mordants, giving a red and black pattern. Polychromatic prints were possible, using two sets of blocks and an additional blue dye.

5. History of printing - Wikipedia

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   Around the year 1000, butterfly binding was developed. Woodblock prints allowed two mirror images to be easily replicated on a single sheet. Thus two pages were printed on a sheet, which was then folded inwards. The sheets were then pasted together at the fold to make a codex with alternate openings of printed and blank pairs of pages. In the ...

6. Eri silk in Meghalaya - Wikipedia

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   Eri silk, a prized fabric woven from the cocoons of domesticated silkworms, holds a special place in the rich cultural heritage of Meghalaya, a state in northeastern India. It is a traditional art inherited from generation to generation and treated as a means of occupation, making the clusters self sustaining communities.

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