Old Floral Textile Printing Block From Jaipur - Ca 1930 Takhat Tables for more details on how

for more details on how these were used

now softly worn with age

This interior style places it from Southern India  - 19thC

The graceful meiping

43 x 9 x 43 cm

Old Floral Textile Printing Block From Jaipur - Ca 1930 Takhat Tables for more details on howThis antique Indian textile printing block was hand carved in Jaipur for the centuries old craft of block printing. The flowing design combines elegant scrolling vines with stylised flowers and curling foliage, creating a beautifully balanced pattern that would have been repeatedly stamped onto cotton fabrics using natural vegetable dyes. Carving a printing block of this complexity demanded remarkable precision. Every raised line and tiny detail was