ABOUT OJJAS – specializing in hand block printing, working in the revival, innovation and contemporary usage of traditional techniques, skills and designs. Ojjas was established in 1999, in Jaipur, with the vision, to attain new dimensions in the ageless appeal of hand block printed textiles, and introducing them to a new luxury markets. Over the years it has created a niche for itself, through constant research, development, commitment to quality and design, and above all to keep alive, the art of fine quality hand block printing, introducing brass blocks for printing the old intricate designs, buties and jals gone out of usage.

 Ojjas, a Sanskrit word means spiritual light, the aura within, the core of all creative activity.

One of the milestones at Ojjas has been the innovation and fine tuning of application, techniques and skills required for vegetable dyeing and printing, on silk materials, making them suitable to present day requirement, especially in this homeland of cotton printing. Use of mud – resist printing ‘Dabu’ on materials like crepes, tussar, silks, georgetts, jacquards, chanderi, and other silk and silk-cotton materials, especially sarees, sourced from all over India, using both vegetable and chemical dyes, to attain vibrancy and new color pallets. Mud resist printing, Indigo dyeing, reviving some of the natural dyes gone out of usage and applying them successful on different varieties of silk and silk cotton mixes has become a specialiaty at Ojjas.