Handkerchief with motifs in binding technique

Such a cloth may have been used for many purposes, for example, as a bedspread or shawl to cover head and shoulders.‖Bandhana is the common name in South Asia for one of the tie-and-dye techniques, a cut-out technique in which the part that is not to be dyed is wound stiffly with threads so that dye cannot penetrate to those parts during the dye bath. The more commonly known name for this process …