ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with performative aspect of the mundane yet significant aspect of lives clothing, and more precisely clothing with the fabrics of block printing. It attempts to look at the performative aspect of block-printed fabric in general, keeping a close look at the activity in Bagru. Block printing provides a site for community to perform its identity through the daily work. The washing constitutes a primary part of a block-printed product. The subsequent introduction of mechanisation and emphasis on money economy, the chippa community was flung open to worry. The effect of market on changing performance is an entirely different yet important sphere of discussion. If material culture is the prime focus of a study, then human agency is central to it. Block printing can thus be considered a performance in terms of work as well as daily activity of community bringing out different identities through the processes of making, through colourful motifs and through differences in wearing clothes.
