Hi! I'm Bansini (https://www.deviantart.com/bansini), and I'm going to be introducing you to the Indian art style : Kalamkari.
by vininfashion (https://www.deviantart.com/vininfashion)
Not many people know about this style of art, and this includes Indians.
Kalamkari, which literally means 'pen work', are paintings done on cotton textile with vegetable or natural dyes.
For information on the history of Kalamkari, click here. For it's technical aspects, click here.
Okay! So before I jump in into how Kalamkari is done here, I'll gloss over why you should try it out atleast once in your life.
You'll start this piece from scratch. And by scratch, I don't just mean your own designs; the dyes and the pen are both