Faces behind the Fabric

Bagh village is the place where Bagh printing is sourced and exclusively conducted. It is basically controlled and
operated by five-six Muslim Khatri households of Bagh who are also the proprietors of the manufacturing facilities at
Bagh. The artisans who are adept at the craft in these facilities are from various communities such as Teli, Bhillala,
Bhil and Rajput. The Bagh prints are basically floral and geometrical patterns and the blocks for Bagh printing are
crafted with great skill by block makers that reside in Pethapur, Gujarat.
Present day Scenario
Bagh prints are an all time favourite in the Indian subcontinent primarily because the material is very comfortable
and soft. There is a variety of Bagh printed merchandise that is commonly found such as bed covers, cushion covers,
table covers, runners, mats, ladies suits and sarees, kurtis, dupattas, skirts and dresses amongst other things. A lot
of trendy and contemporary prints are now being used by the Bagh printers along with more fabrics apart from Cotton
such as Silk, Crepe and Tassar with fabulous results. Bagh prints are very fashionable and people are developing a
new connect with this beautiful art form which is a part of the rich Indian textile heritage. Eco-friendly in nature, since
Bagh prints make use of vegetable dyes, this art is gaining a lot of recognition worldwide and indigenously too, with
the Government taking initiatives in trying to support and reform this craft.
Innovations
Bagh prints have become increasingly popular from its erstwhile status of being nearly forgotten. Traditionally, this
printing style was used for a few products such as lehengas and sarees, whereas now it has innovated and expanded
its range to bed covers, dupattas, dress materials, curtains, table cloths and much more. This craft is also gaining
recognition as an eco-friendly technique and therefore Bagh printing is making forays into foreign markets by
experimenting and evolving to satisfy their global clientele.
Maintenance
Bagh printed fabrics are washed three times before being sent out in the market. Generally colour does not leak from
the fabric; however, it is advisable to get the fabric dry cleaned the first time. It can be light washed later on and is not
difficult to maintain.
Global wear-ability
Bagh textiles are usually cotton based and very soft. These are an all time wear as they can be used in all seasons
and climates. A lot of international attention is being given to Bagh printing due to its eco-friendly production process
and Bagh printed merchandise has a huge market abroad.
Accessorizing
Bagh prints are very trendy, particularly because they can give a very nice ethnic twist that exudes simplicity yet
sophistication. From scarves, dupattas and kurtas to patialas and salwars- Bagh prints can be mixed and matched to
give a trendy casual look.
Interesting Facts and Comparisons

Bagh is actually the name of a small tribal town located in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh and is the base for Bagh
printing.

Before the printing takes place, the fabric is washed and sun-dried. After drying, the fabric is soaked in a
mix of goat droppings and castor oil so that it can make the fabric more absorbent.

Bagh printing is completed after a second process of dyeing in which the fabric is placed in a big copper
container of water in which Dhavadi and Alizarin flowers are boiled.

The dyes used in Bagh printing are vegetable based and the main colours are red and black.

References

Bagh Print: A Unique Fabric Printing Techniques Using Natural Dyes

What Is Bagh Print?

Bagh Print Fabric

Bagh Print is one of the age old style of Indian Fabric
Printing. It is another form of hand printing or hand block
printing on fabric, cloth or paper. In this type of printing
natural vegetable dyes in the form of plants, flowers, trees,
leaves, bark, etc are used. Bagh literally means Garden
in Hindi language. Bagh Print Fabric is pure Indian
handloom cotton which is eco-friendly and organic.

It is made by using natural vegetable dyes and pigments.

Natural Dyes such as turmeric roots, madder, beet,
mango, pomegranate rinds, madder, saffron, heena,
indigo, onion skin are used. Herbs like ' harad' which is
botanical name of Terminalia chebula, etc also play an
important part in the process. The designs on the fabric
created are traditional prints of India. It consists of mostly
floral, paisley and geometrical patterns.
Where Bagh Print Is Made?
It is a native print done mainly in Dhar district of Madhya
Pradesh in India by their rural population. Interestingly,
Bagh is also the name of the small town in Dhar district
where this unique organic fabric is made.

How Is Bagh Print Different?

Bagh Print is completely different from any other fabric

printing techniques like screen printing or digital printing.
The designs on fabric are usually one or other kind of
motifs which represent nature in one form or the other.
There are other print of fabric like Jaali or Jali work which
were the intricate designs found in Taj Mahal which is one
of the 7 wonders of the world.

The method used in making Bagh Print Fabric and Indian

Block Print is almost the same. However, in Block Print
technique, the dye used is chemical and commercial. In
the making of Bagh Print, utmost care is taken to make it
only by using natural dyes. The main technique in making
of these Bagh Prints is the use of hand carved woodblock
print on the fabric.
The entire process is painstaking and labor intensive. It
takes approximately 20 days to complete the entire
process and get the finished product. It takes time

because blocks of wood are sometimes custom made for

a specific design. The fabric is dyed, washed repeatedly
with hands to ensure that the colors of the fabric are color
fast. The end result is worth the time and efforts and the
print on cotton is splendid.
Who Makes Bagh Print Fabric?
This fabric is made by the artisans of India residing in rural
parts of Madhya Pradesh. It not helps in rural development
but is also these peoples major source of income. It is an
Organic Fair Trade Fabric. It means the laborers and
whoever is involved in this process is paid fairly and
properly.

Bagh Print Saree

Why Use Bagh Print Fabric?
The entire process of making Bagh Print Fabric is
Handmade. Due to which, it gives the designs on fabric a

subtle irregular look. In other words, there are some

characteristic variations in texture and occasional
imperfections found in this type of handmade fabric. It
actually adds to the beauty and can never be found on
machine made or digitally printed fabric.
Bagh Print is non-toxic and allergy free and above all,
good for your skin. The advantages are that Bagh Print is
an eco-friendly fabric, biodegradable and organic. The
natural dyes used to make the fabric is mostly permanent
and
fade
resistant.
This fantastic fabric becomes softer and shiner after every
wash due to the vegetable dyes used in it instead of the
chemicals. The feeling of wearing or using the
environment friendly fabric in itself provides you with
immense joy and satisfaction.

Bagh Print

How To Check the Authenticity of this Bagh Print

Fabric?
During the production of bagh print, a special component
called Madder lake also known as Alizarin is used in the
process of dyeing. If you smell the fabric, you sense a
peculiar scent of this natural organic compound. Then, you
know that is a genuine bagh print fabric.
Recommended Uses of Bagh Print:
This amazing light weight fabric is suitable for a variety of
purposes. Bagh Print Sarees are much sought in India and
worn by women who are aware of its organic properties of
such cloth material. The fabric can be used for garments,
making curtains, upholstery, etc. It can also be used for
quilting, sewing, scrap booking and other craft projects.

Alizarin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Madder lake" redirects here. For the Australian band, see Madder Lake (band).

Alizarin

IUPAC name[hide]

1,2-dihydroxy-9,10-anthracenedione

Other names[hide]

1,2-Dihydroxyanthraquinone, Turkey red, Mordant red 11, Alizarin B,

Alizarin red

Identifiers

CAS number

72-48-0

PubChem

6293

ChemSpider

6056

UNII

60MEW57T9G

KEGG

C01474

ChEBI

CHEBI:16866

ChEMBL

CHEMBL55814

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SMILES
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InChI
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Properties

Molecular formula

C14H8O4

Molar mass

240.21 g mol1

Appearance

orange-red crystals or powder

Density

1.540 g/cm3

Melting point

279 to 83 C (534 to 181 F;

552 to 356 K)

Boiling point

430 C (806 F; 703 K)

Solubility in water

slightly to sparingly soluble

Acidity (pKa)

6.94

Hazards

MSDS

External MSDS

R-phrases

R36 R37 R38

S-phrases

S26 S36

Related compounds

Related compounds

anthraquinone, anthracene

Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials

in their standard state (at 25 C (77 F), 100 kPa)

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Alizarin or 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone (also known as Mordant Red 11 and Turkey Red[1]) is

an organic compound with formula C
14H
8O
4 that has been used throughout history as a prominent red dye, principally for dyeing textile fabrics.
Historically it was derived from the roots of plants of the madder genus.[2] In 1869, it became the first
natural pigment to be duplicated synthetically.[3]
Alizarin is the main ingredient for the manufacture of the madder lake pigments known to painters
as Rose madder and Alizarin crimson. Alizarin in the most common usage of the term has a deep
red color, but the term is also part of the name for several related non-red dyes, such as Alizarine
Cyanine Green and Alizarine Brilliant Blue. A notable use of alizarin in modern times is as a staining
agent in biological research because it stains free calcium and certain calcium compounds a red or
light purple color. Alizarin continues to be used commercially as a red textile dye, but to a lesser
extent than 100 years ago.
Contents
[hide]

1 History

2 Structure and properties

3 Applications

4 See also

5 References

6 External links

History[edit]
Madder has been cultivated as a dyestuff since antiquity in central Asia and Egypt, where it was
grown as early as 1500 BC. Cloth dyed with madder root pigment was found in the tomb of
thePharaoh Tutankhamun and in the ruins of Pompeii and ancient Corinth.[citation needed] In the Middle
Ages, Charlemagne encouraged madder cultivation. Madder was widely used as a dye in Western
Europe in the Late Medieval centuries.[4] In 17th century England, alizarin was used as a red dye for
the clothing of the parliamentary New Model Army. The distinctive red color would continue to be
worn for centuries (though also produced by other dyes such as cochineal), giving English and later
British soldiers the nickname of "redcoats".

alizarin color

The madder dyestuff is combined with a dye mordant. According to which mordant used, the
resulting color may be anywhere from pink through purple to dark brown. In the 18th century the
most valued color was a bright red known as "Turkey Red". The combination of mordants and overall
technique used to obtain the Turkey Red originated in the Middle East or Turkey (hence the name). It
was a complex and multi-step technique in its Middle Eastern formulation, some parts of which were
unnecessary.[5] The process was simplified in late 18th-century Europe. By 1804, a dye
maker George Field in Britain had refined a technique to make lake madder by treating it with alum,
and analkali,[6] that converts the water-soluble madder extract into a solid, insoluble pigment. This
resulting madder lake has a longer-lasting color, and can be used more efficaciously, for example by
blending it into a paint. Over the following years, it was found that other metal salts, including those
containing iron, tin, and chromium, could be used in place of alum to give madder-based pigments of
various other colors. This general method of preparing lakes has been known for centuries [7] but was
simplified in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
In 1826, the French chemist Pierre-Jean Robiquet found that madder root contained two colorants,
the red alizarin and the more rapidly fading purpurin.[8] The alizarin component became the first
natural dye to be synthetically duplicated in 1868 when the German chemists Carl Graebe and Carl
Liebermann, working for BASF, found a way to produce it from anthracene.[9] About the same time,
the English dye chemist William Henry Perkin independently discovered the same synthesis,
although the BASF group filed their patent before Perkin by only one day. The subsequent discovery
(made by Broenner and Gutzhow in 1871) that anthracene could be abstracted from coal tar further
advanced the importance and affordability of alizarin's artificial synthesis. [10]
The synthetic alizarin could be produced for a fraction of the cost of the natural product, and the
market for madder collapsed virtually overnight. The principal synthesis entailed oxidation of
anthraquinone-2-sulfonic acid with sodium nitrate in concentrated sodium hydroxide. Alizarin itself
has been in turn largely replaced today by the more light-resistant quinacridone pigments developed
at DuPont in 1958.

Structure and properties[edit]

Alizarin is one of ten dihydroxyanthraquinone isomers. Its molecular structure can be viewed as
being derived from anthraquinone by replacement of two neighboring hydrogen atoms (H)
byhydroxyl groups (-OH).
It is soluble in hexane and chloroform, and can be obtained from the latter as red-purple crystals,
m.p. 277278 C.[2]
Alizarin changes color depending on the pH of the solution it is in, thereby making it a pH indicator.[11]

Applications[edit]
Alizarin Red is used in a biochemical assay to determine, quantitatively by colorimetry, the presence
of calcific deposition by cells of an osteogenic lineage. As such it is an early stage marker (days 10
16 of in vitro culture) of matrix mineralization, a crucial step towards the formation of calcified
extracellular matrix associated with true bone.[citation needed]
Alizarin's abilities as a biological stain were first noted in 1567, when it was observed that when fed
to animals, it stained their teeth and bones red. The chemical is now commonly used in medical
studies involving calcium. Free (ionic) calcium forms precipitates with alizarin, and tissue block
containing calcium stain red immediately when immersed in alizarin. Thus, both pure calcium and
calcium in bones and other tissues can be stained. The process of staining calcium with alizarin
works best when conducted in basic solution.[12]
In clinical practice, it is used to stain synovial fluid to assess for basic calcium phosphate crystals.
[13]
Alizarin has also been used in studies involving bone growth, osteoporosis, bone marrow, calcium
deposits in the vascular system, cellular signaling, gene expression, tissue engineering, and
mesenchymal stem cells.[12] In geology, it is used as a stain to indicate the calcium carbonate minera