Yesterday I received a beautiful gift from my friend, Pratima (peepsatthepeepaltree). On a trip to India, Pratima purchased an assortment of hand block printed fabrics, and she shared some of these lovely prints with her readers. Pratima made an amazing quilt with her fabrics, and wrote about hand block printing and her quilt here and here. If you have read Pratima’s blog, you know that she is not only a quilter with a unique sense of design and color, but also a fabulous cook who publishes easy-to-follow Indian cooking tutorials with the most beautiful photography I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t yet visited Pratima, you are in for a treat.
My gifts were the beautiful fabric squares and block-print covered journal, all packaged with a sachet which made everything smell all sandalwoody. I am very excited to design a quilt project with my prints, and also to finally gather the information for each of my quilts and enter it in my new journal. Thank you so much, Pratima.
Pratima also shared a wonderful video of Indian hand block printing, which will give you an appreciation of this ancient craft.
Amazing… the block with the tiny flowers is mind boggling!
How beautiful – Love the print on the journal. What a lovely gift. Those blocks are works of art in themselves- what a lot of work to get the fabric printed, but so beautiful.
Martha, thank you so much for the sweetest words. I’m so glad you like them. I’m looking forward to see your beautiful creation with these fabrics 🙂
Have a wonderful week!
Those prints a re SO pretty! It was so nice of Pratima to share her special fabrics.
I have a couple of old wood blocks that were used in fabric printing. Such a lot of work went into the making of those beautiful fabrics. 🙂
The first pictures in the video are of Udaipur palace which took me back to a holiday in India where I spent a few nights in this hotel on an island in middle of a lake – the James Bond film Octopussy was shot there too! How marvellous to see the process of making hand blocked fabric and what lovely gifts…