Hajjani Jetun Bi (b. n.d.) is an Indian master practitioner of Bagh printing. The wife of Ismail Suleiman Khatri, she specialises in vegetable-dye production and received a National Award for the same in 2007. Along with her family, she continues to practice and teach traditional Bagh techniques in Madhya Pradesh.
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