Tents and accessories let you create the perfect environment for your wedding, party or special event.
At Garg Tents, we offer a unique array of rental items of the finest quality, together with the hands-on service and support to make your party a success!
Garg Tents Decorative handmade tents, wedding tents, indian tents, canopies, pavilions, and furnishings imported directly from India available to buy or rent. Various, unique color schemes, water-resistant, off-white or colored natural cotton canvas. Ideal for gardens weddings parties poolside or beach.
Garg Dyeing & Tent Works Dhulkot, Behind King Fisher,
Ambala City-134003, India
Phone: +91 171 2521583,
+91 171 2520415
Fax: +91 171 2521645 Email: gargtent@yahoo.com
Tents
All the tents are made by hand using natural materials and employing many different local skills - block-printing, dyeing, tassel-making, embroidery, appliqué, rope-making, mirror work, weaving and many more.
The exteriors are all made out of waterproof, mildew resistance and fire retardant natural white canvas and the interiors are in cotton sheeting with decorative detailing.
This unique collection of tents and accessories has been designed to create magical spaces for a variety of different events to take place in - for celebrations, weddings, christenings, gardens, entertaining, tourism, performance, yoga or meditation...
Individual orders can also be created to special commission.
Block Printing
A Printer is a Printer by caste and by trade. A Printer prints because it is his way of life. Many days are required to move a piece of cotton fabric through all the complicated steps of tanning and registering, curing and washing, resisting and dyeing. Hand block printing is a skilled and laborious process.
Printers at Garg Tents explain that they enjoy the challenge of doing high-quality work, as long as customers recognize the quality and are willing to pay for it. The designs often provide challenges for the printers.
This technique simulates a wooden block on which the required design is first carved.
The carved block is then used for transferring the motif in the desired colour on the fabric. This process is most effective on ethnic floral patterns and for printing in vegetable dyes in traditional Bagru and Kalamkari prints. Each colour in a design is printed on to the fabric separately - one block each for each colour.
Hand-block printed fabric designs of north India are some of the best known traditional manufactures of India.
Archeological remains from the Indus Valley civilizations in the 3rd millennium BCE include cotton fragments dyed with 'madder', the same earthy red pigment which features in many of our hand block printed products. Dye vats, spindles & bronze needles found at sites like Mohenjo-daro indicate highly developed fabric work.
Indian textiles were carried along the great trade routes of the Ancient World, becoming highly prized in the Persian, Greek & Roman civilizations for their brilliant colours.
Special expertise in the complex process of hand block printed fabrics developed in the Rajasthan to service myriad royal courts in India. Many of those designs outlasted the rise and fall of other fashions and became a staple of home furnishings in Europe.
Modern industrial methods threatened every traditional handicraft, including hand block printing, with extinction. Mahatma Gandhi made strenuous efforts to support traditional handicrafts, especially fabric production. If he had had his way the center of the modern Indian flag would have been occupied by a simple spinning wheel, not the more martial chariot wheel. Gandhi believed that rapid industrial growth, driving people from the villages to the cities, robbing them of autonomy and cultural identity, was not the appropriate form of development for India. He wanted to sustain and enrich village life and traditional culture. He accepted that science and industry offered many benefits to the people, but not at the expense of their fundamental livelihoods. At the time many as hopelessly idealistic regarded him yet his views can be seen reflected in the support the Government of India still gives to small-scale cottage industries..
You can clearly see Gandhi's analysis played out in the field of hand block printing. Modern industry in the form of screen printers were able to take the classic hand block designs and reproduce them much more cheaply. A centuries old artisan tradition virtually died.
However US and European health concerns led to restrictions on the use of certain screen printing dyes. The cost implications for many Indian screen print manufacturers meant that Europe, US and other major markets were effectively now closed, forcing them to shut many of their units as a result. The Government of India has actively sought to revive the traditional art of hand block printing as part of a strategy to address economic damage to the fabric screen print industry.
Our Location: Air : Nearest domestic airport is Chandigarh and Indian Airlines and Jet Airways daily operate flights form Delhi, Rajasthan, Mumbai etc.
Rail : An excellent connection to Delhi by Shatabdi Express and many other fast trains and can be reach in two and half hours.
Road : A network of comfortable tourist buses from New Delhi, run by road corporations of Haryana, Rajasthan and other states and can be reach in three hours. Hiring a taxi would be an excellent idea.
