This vibrant, enchanting scarfhas been hand block printed on the highest quality pure cotton using handmade teak printing blocks.For the scarf pattern, the printer designs from one to thirty print blocks, each of which takes two days to carve.The artist uses a series of different wood blocks to fill in or add different details and colors to the the design.Dimensions: 15"X72".Handmade in Indiaby Anokhi.

My appreciation for the intricate and precise art of hand printing was cultivated in the state where thetechnique of printing and dying fabric was honed, Rajastan, India.

Learn more about this ancient textile art and why I fell in love with it here:

** The additional photo is one I took at the Anokhi Museum of a completed teak wood block (yes, that was hand carved!).