Pen Kalamkari literally means pen & kari work ie, art work done using a pen. Vegetable dyes are used to color the designs applied on cloth. The artists use a bamboo or date palm stick pointed at one end with a bundle of fine hair attached to this pointed end . The dyes are obtained by extracting colors from parts of plants- roots,leaves along with mineral salts of iron , tin,copper, alum etc. which are used as mordants. THE PROCESS Socked in water overnight to remove the starch, no detergent is used. Immersed in buffalo milk in which myrobalan bud paste is mixed . dried for 2 hours, Black dye is drawn then red  , then dried for 2 days ; washed under running water , boiled for 30 minutes repeatedly  for 3 days . before the next color is applied again will go through the same process , after the application of each color , the fabric will go through 20 washes . The Pen Kalamkari is then placed on muggom to do the cut work on our choice of saree. 

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