A relief carving-based technique where the image remains at the surface level of a wooden block while the negative spaces around its contours is carved off. The raised image retains the ink and is printed on the desired surface, usually paper.
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Naqshaband
The designer of the naqsha (map or design plan) of Banarasi brocade. They sketch and create the map of motifs…
Screen-Printing
Also known as serigraphy and silk-screen printing, it is a stencil-based technique of printing on a substrate such as paper…
Collagraph
A printmaking technique in which colour is applied to a printing surface covered with different materials and texture, then transferred…
Katorna
The process of trimming extra threads on the reverse side of a brocade after weaving. The term is derived from…
Waxed Paper Negative
A photographic negative using a base of paper coated with oil or beeswax before the application of dry and stable…
Khapa Sari
Also known as patiya sari, it is a tussar silk sari characterised by extra weft rib weaves in the pallu…
Relief Printing
A printmaking process in which the printing surface is cut or etched with the design to be printed. Methods of…
Size
A solution that is applied to warp threads before they are set on a loom for weaving, it protects the…