<P> To create design contours, artists use a bamboo or date palm stick pointed at one end with a bundle of fine hair attached to this pointed end to serve as the brush or pen . This pen is soaked in a mixture of fermented jaggery and water; one by one these are applied, then the vegetable dyes . </P> <P> In Iran, the fabric is printed using patterned wooden stamps . </P> <P> Dyes for the cloth are obtained by extracting colors from various roots, leaves, and mineral salts of iron, tin, copper, and alum . Various effects are obtained by using cow dung, seeds, plants and crushed flowers to obtain natural dye . Along with buffalo milk, myrobalan is used in kalamkari . Myrobalan is also able to remove the odd smell of buffalo milk . The fixing agents available in the myrobolan can easily fix the dye or color of the textile while treating the fabric . Alum is used in making natural dyes and also while treating the fabric . Alum ensures the stability of the color in kalamkari fabric . </P> <P> Kalamkari specifically depicts epics such as the Ramayana or Mahabharata . However, there are recent applications of the kalamkari technique to depict Buddha and Buddhist art forms . </P>

Kalamkari is an indian style of painting from which state