Pure Katan Silk Kadwa Meenakari Banarasi Saree in Royal Purple salaidar handwoven on the loom with

handwoven on the loom with the floats between motifs cut away by hand after weaving

This is one of the many stories of the origin of Dabu or Mud- resist printing

Handwoven with precision and love

blue and grey through gold across the full body

The pallu shifts to geometry — an octagon jaal with kalgha paisley centres in indigo

Pure Katan Silk Kadwa Meenakari Banarasi Saree in Royal Purple salaidar handwoven on the loom withRoyal purple is a colour that needs no embellishment on the body and this Katan silk gives it none. The ground is plain, interrupted only by the finest self colour doriya stripe running the length, visible as texture rather than pattern. All the craft is at the border. The border is wide and densely worked a kadwa meenakari phulwar jaal covering the full band in flowers, stems, and leaves in white, teal, pink, orange, red, and yellow silk. Each