Mughal Jaali Patterns

Painting on textiles is used for both craft and fine art applications (Figure 34). Painting on textiles is an easy and convenient medium to create and shape up designing ideas through which one can meet endless opportunities to transform the creativity.
Wide range of textiles is manufactured all over the world with numerous techniques. These techniques depend upon climatic and geographical conditions, cultural influence and availability of raw materials along with the trade contact. But painting technique is a one which can be implied and used without depending upon such factor.
Although Mughal Jaali patterns could not be identified anywhere in traditional painted textiles of India, but looking around the contemporary trends and practices,
 Most of the students attempted to recreate the Jaali pattern by filling in the colours based on any colour scheme and harmony.
 Masks were only used to bring a highlight on the Jaali patterns.
 All the patterns were made with the concept of repeat.
 All the patterns were created with multi utility purpose.
Result:
It was found that even today after so much of advancement in techniques and modernization of designs, the upcoming generation still is connected to the same geometric patterns which were created 100s of years back by our ancestors. Without making much change to the original patterns the students came out with some amazing ideas to just name them as contemporary. Majorly working upon the original Jaali pattern the students were delighted to take inspiration from our heritage art and added a modern touch to it by simply superimposing the repeats of masks.
One thing is proven, that while working upon repeats the Islamic geometric patterns would of great help as they itself are based on the rules of mathematics and technical repeats of geometry. Thousands of geometric repeats can be recreated by following the Jaali patterns in a sensible
Variety of techniques are applied to do printing amongst which the most commonly used are wood block printing, stencil printing, engraved plates printing, roller printing and screen printing. If we look back at our Indian traditions, we may find quite a few states and places where printing especially with blocks has traditionally been done since ages. Due to the low cost and easy applicable technique with brilliant colour results, most of the designers are motivated and attracted towards this technique of textile ornamentation. In this part of the chapter, the resemblance to Jaali will be identified in the printed textiles (Figure