Traditionally pure silk and natural
dyes were used.Since about last 100 years, tradition had
given way to the use of fast to bleach and easy to dye
chemical colours (dyes). Therefore the use of natural
dyes in Patola is discontinued. But since last twenty
years again the importance to use of vegetable dyes became
the consideration of its eco-friendliness and to maintain
the tradition of old natural dyes in Patola.
We have made many experiments and researches in redeveloping
the old indigenous process of using vegetable ingredients
to obtain different shades which are fast to bleach and
sober and pleasing to eyes.
The re-introduced, vegetable materials are: Turmeric,
Marigold Flower, Onion Skin, Pomegranate rinds, Madder,
Lac, Catechu, Cochineal, Indigo along with different mordant
like alum, tinchloride, ferrous sulphate, copper sulphate,
Tennic Acid, Oxalic Acid, Potassium Dichromate etc.
Dewelling on the fast colour of
the patola, a Gujarat poet wrote; "Padi patole
bhat faatey pan phite nahin" meaning the design
laid down in the patola may be torn, but it shall never
fade.
Click
here to have a look at different traditional
designs of Patola.
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Opening of a silk yarn from skeins on to a
"Parti" |
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