Daboo is a black mud found in
few river beds of India. It involves two
artisans out of which, one’s job is to keep stamping and other guy helps in
mixing and adding lime water to get the required consistency right for
printing. This mud with other natural substances is labourously made into a
smooth paste. This paste is used in printing. Daboo acts like a resist in
printing similar to wax printing in Batik print. This paste has a shelf life of
only one day. Thus every day in the morning artisans prepare this paste as much
required. This art is unique because nowhere in the world is this process
carried out other than India.
We at Veda help support and
encourage good craftsmanship. In our endeavor to keep this ancient rare art of
printing alive, our team is working on creating contemporary designs in a quest
to generate demand in turn empowering our artisans get a quality livelihood.
After extensive research and visits to small pockets of villages around India,
we noticed that this art which used to be passed on from generations to
generation is slowly fading off. Today’s youth was not interested to continue
this exquisite art forward. Thus we took this as a challenge to not just sustain
this art but also created an immense demand for it and initialized with kurtasfor kids, men, and women.
www.shopveda.com was ventured with
the main idea to showcase this art to the world. In our 12 yrs path we have
achieved success in lifting this art to another level. Artisans are a part of
our expanding family. We realized that you our esteemed customers would be
interested to know more about this exquisite art of printing. We take the honor
to showcase few of our artisans performing the art of printing at different
stages. By the way don’t miss to check out an innovative artisan using a floppy
disc.
Every design that’s generated by the process of dabu
printing for kids kurtas gets unique
design in some manner, various color combinations and intricacy of design makes
it as an exclusive piece of art and that is why it tempts people to go for kurtas for kids with unique prints as
the design would be very unique and you won’t find those similar designs
elsewhere. We are very proud to say that the wavelength of shopveda has been
positive right from the beginning just because of the unique concept of serving
the world in an organic way.