Sun 27th Dec 2009
Today was a good day I went shopping for the first time, I mean girlie shopping and I was on a mission for a silk Bandhani dupatta!
Bandhani is a very ancient traditional textile technique of tie and dye practised by people mainly of Rajasthan and Gujarat, the patterns are made up of innumerable dots and weaves respectively. Usually men do the dyeing while women do the tying, which is most painstaking with each dot being as tiny as a pin-head. lifting small portions of the fabric and tightly tie a thread around it. The more minuscule the raised Bandhani – tied textile fabric, the finer the bandhana.
Dupatta is a long, multi-purpose scarf that is essentially a modesty assessory for Asian women and is worn with a shalwar kameez and the kurta, anyway, I found not one but two as it was so hard to decide.
It took most of a very entertaining morning being driven by Rajek in his tuk tuk around Jaipur, there is not a part of Jaipur he doesn’t know and we are getting rather attached to him.
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