India Travel Update 
Tie and Dye - Bandhej and Leheria are the most prominent traditional methods of printing which is worth mentioning in the catalog of the famed Arts and Crafts of India. Astoundingly, their origin is around 5000 years old and has obtained inestimable recognition. The Bandhej and Leheria are the two divergent ways of tie and Dye that have become the blue eyed boys of the art lovers.
For our readers, the detail explanation is being mentioned here below related to this intricate art form. Bandhej is renowned as 'Bandhani' or 'Bandhni' which is grandly urbane and complicated method of cloth adornment by mingling numerous dyes.
Moreover, the modus operandi of Bandhej engages tying of small dots with threads over entire cloth piece to produce patterns and motifs of different shapes. It also involves the entanglement of various fabrics into tiny knots and then immersed into the Dye which ultimately delivers the cloth an emblematic design which is expressed as Bandhej or Bandhani. Whereas, on the other end, Leheria is an art form that is effortlessly notable in the Rajasthani turbans. These turbans have a wave-like style, named as 'Leher' whose Hindi meaning is waves. This fashion can be easily recognized by the sequence of diagonal lines having one color that sprints from corner to corner a white background thus give an imposing upshot to the whole fabric.
Last but not the least, the Tie and Die - Bandhej and Leheria are generally seen in sarees, kurtas, salwars and other varieties of clothes. It will be a sheer stupidity at your part of not buying any product made of the Tie & Die - Bandhej and Leheria while shopping in the markets of Rajasthan.
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