Current trends are shifting toward all things natural and fair-trade, including clothing. Many parents are opting for organic products for their children, including high-quality apparel made of natural wool, silk, and cotton. A company selling children's clothing in Northern California offers a wide selection of hand-crafted clothing and accessories fashioned in the art of the traditional textile.
A special decorating technique, known and used in India during the thirteenth century is Kalamkari. This technique is accomplished by a rather complicated process that uses a pen known as a "kalam". It is a seventeen step decoration process that is quite common in southeastern India. Natural dyes made from leaves, stems and naturally occurring metals, alum and iron acetate, are used for colors. Natural mordants, are used to keep the colors in the material from fading when it is washed. Hand craftsmen decorate the clothing with natural things such as crushed flowers, seeds and plants.
Another Indian method of decoration is hand block-printing. It is a simple but slow process. This method allows the artisan to add different colorful patterns or designs to the textiles they make. The artist makes a design on a block of wood. He must have a different block for each color he plans to use. A flat relief carving of the pattern is put on the block. Then it is painted in the desired color and firmly pressed onto the fabric to relocate the design.
If an artist plans to use several colors in a design, the individual colors are placed on the fabric and permitted to dry before the next one is put on. The only way to accomplish the aesthetic effect on material that an artisan desires is with block-printing. A company that sells clothing for children in Northern California does amazing block-printed items.
Ikat uses a resist-dyeing process similar to tie-dyeing. Dye-resistant bindings are applied where desired, while color is applied to the surrounding threads. Alternations of binding patterns and the incorporation of multiple colors produce elaborate patterns. When dyeing is complete, the bindings are removed so the thread can be woven into cloth. The premier form of this technique employs double-ikat fabric.
These beautiful detailed decorative techniques are done on all-natural fabric and made into children's clothing that are sold in an apparel store in Northern California.
A special decorating technique, known and used in India during the thirteenth century is Kalamkari. This technique is accomplished by a rather complicated process that uses a pen known as a "kalam". It is a seventeen step decoration process that is quite common in southeastern India. Natural dyes made from leaves, stems and naturally occurring metals, alum and iron acetate, are used for colors. Natural mordants, are used to keep the colors in the material from fading when it is washed. Hand craftsmen decorate the clothing with natural things such as crushed flowers, seeds and plants.
Another Indian method of decoration is hand block-printing. It is a simple but slow process. This method allows the artisan to add different colorful patterns or designs to the textiles they make. The artist makes a design on a block of wood. He must have a different block for each color he plans to use. A flat relief carving of the pattern is put on the block. Then it is painted in the desired color and firmly pressed onto the fabric to relocate the design.
If an artist plans to use several colors in a design, the individual colors are placed on the fabric and permitted to dry before the next one is put on. The only way to accomplish the aesthetic effect on material that an artisan desires is with block-printing. A company that sells clothing for children in Northern California does amazing block-printed items.
Ikat uses a resist-dyeing process similar to tie-dyeing. Dye-resistant bindings are applied where desired, while color is applied to the surrounding threads. Alternations of binding patterns and the incorporation of multiple colors produce elaborate patterns. When dyeing is complete, the bindings are removed so the thread can be woven into cloth. The premier form of this technique employs double-ikat fabric.
These beautiful detailed decorative techniques are done on all-natural fabric and made into children's clothing that are sold in an apparel store in Northern California.
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