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MR.BRIJ B .UDAIWAL who comes from
India has done a gigantic feat meticulously to promote and
preserve Hand Block printing by vegetable dyes, the technique as
ancient as the Indian civilization intact for the last 5000
years.
He resides right at the focal point of Sanganeri traditional
textile printing units cluster.
When he was merely in teen’s, his father Shri . Madho .L .Udaiwal
and mother who themselves are the masters in the cited field
taught him well about this technique of textile printing. Since
then he never halted and advanced as far as he could. Gradually
he seasoned in hand block textile printing technology
specifically through vegetables dyes and exclusively too. These
dyes (vegetables pigments) adhere permanently upon the fabric
either cotton silk or otherwise.
He was very aware about advent of ecological pollutions and
their hazardous effects upon the globe .Since his early
childhood .That is why he never used chemicals to deteriorate
the world.
The real blood of Sanganer, Pink city runs in his veins.
One day he was working in his workshop, suddenly an idea sparked
in his mind. He
thought that printing is being done on one side of the textile.
Can it be done on the both side of it? And Lo! He invented new
concept. He did it on a silken scarf piece by hand block through
vegetable dyes. For this feat he achieved prestigious District
level competition award reward in the year 1986.Later in the
year 1991,he got ‘National Award Certificate’ for the
craftsmanship and his contribution to the department of ‘Block
Printed Silk Saree’s by vegetable(natural)dyes. This award is
given by Ministry of Textile India. For his spectacular
contributions in the cited craftsmanship, he was further awarded
‘Jaipur Virasat Foundation Award’ to protect and prevent
heritage Jaipur in the year 1999.
Last year 2004, he got Alankarit Shilp Utsav Participation
Award.
He played a major role to protect the shifting of Sanganer
Textile Printing units cluster to somewhere else and helped a
lot to these Industries.
He has developed at-least fifteen self help women groups and
providers’ jobs and training to new ventures.
His expertise is ‘silk printing through natural dyes by hand
blocks.”
For the last twenty years he owns ‘SHILPI SANSTHAN’ situated at
6/46 Siliberi Ke Piche, Sanganer, Jaipur RAJASTHAN, INDIA
phone-0091-0141-2731106.
SHILP’s last fiscal year’s turnover was Rs. Ten million and its
export was 20,000 USD.
Recently he has been deputed to ‘Netherlands’ for giving live
demonstration in an Indian cultural event “traditions” in Emmen
Zoo, Drenthe Province, the Netherlands from July 12 to Sept.
3,2005.
Moreover he is visiting UK for his far constructive and positive
collaboration on the Techno craft Research Project at
Southampton University.
There he should visit to see the practical implication of ‘Ink
Jet Printing.
He is also going to Switzerland where he will show for public in
the museum his work of traditional hand block on textiles. And
also will run a workshop on 24th August 05 in the Museum. |
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