Hand printed sarees are in great demand not only in India but also in countries all over the world.

The prints on these sarees are done using skilled workers, and in the olden days, people used to hand print these sarees using the wooden blocks. Moreover, these sarees age back to Indus Valley civilization.

The process involves the painting using pen with dyes and mordants on the cloth and that is known as kalamkari. Further, the combination of printing and kalamkari form the outline of the design. 

Development of hand-printing industry is remarkable in India with important centers setting up new technologies of machine printing and skilled weavers.

The technique of hand printing comes from the ancient people who had mastered the art of hand printing; however, this field has undergone extensive improvement.

There are two styles of printing: one is used for the peasants and other for the urban population.

Peasants wear thick khaddar or coarse cloth and their sarees carried bold patterns on a dark background. The black color was prepared with iron oxide.

The brown and the red are also indigenous dyes, which require sun for their development.

To develop a color was done by allowing water to flow and kept in sunlight, which radiate and develop the color, giving them a glow.

The red-and-black saturated prints give the textile an appearance of a rich silk rather than that of a coarse cotton material.

If the quality of the color of saree is not good then it loses its color, which might get adhered to another material while washing.