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Kalamkari Painting
The Art of Fabric Painting using Natural Links
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Color Filling
The color filling is done so cautiously to avoid color spreading. Red colored cloth is now taken to color filling process. Initially the yellow color is filled in the required portions and then it is followed by green and rose. Finally blue color is filled. The color filling is done using tapered edged Kalam. Tapering is done by chisel.
Color making:
Yellow: Myrobalan flower and alum are grounded into powder and mixed with water. This solution is boiled and cooled to obtain yellow color.
Light Yellow: Pomegranate skin is dried and mixed with alum to obtain light yellow color.
Green: Myrobalan flower, Kasim Kaaram and alum is mixed with water and boiled to obtain green color.
Rose: Chavalakodi root powder and alum is mixed with water to obtain rose color.
Blue: Blue is extracted from natural indigo.
