Secrets of the Mud: The Magic of Rajasthan’s Dabu Print
Walk through the sun-baked, dusty lanes of Bagru, and you will hear a rhythmic, soothing sound echoing from open courtyards: the steady thud-thud-thud of wooden blocks hitting cotton cloth. This is the birthplace of Dabu printing, an extraordinary mud-resist textile art that has survived in Rajasthan for over three centuries. In a modern world dominated…
