Handwoven Banarasi Katan Silk Ektara Rangkat Jangla Saree in Lilac Purple dusty lilac Brocade is the woven pattern

Brocade is the woven pattern which is purely decorative and independent of the structure of the cloth which is achieved using extra pattern weft or extra warp

painterly richness

distinguished by a rath (chariot) border worked in gold zari along the pallu end

the body kept clean with fine scattered butis and the pallu rising into a large tree buti worked in sona-rupa gold and silver zari

The body carries the natural slub texture of raw silk

Handwoven Banarasi Katan Silk Ektara Rangkat Jangla Saree in Lilac Purple dusty lilac Brocade is the woven patternA lilac purple katan silk saree handwoven in Varanasi in the Ektara weave, the body covered in a jangla a dense, all over jaal of floral vines in silver zari. The pallu and border are worked in the rangkat style, with vertical stripe bands shifting between lilac and periwinkle blue, divided by silver zari and touched with meena floral detailing. The Ektara weave gives the saree a fine, single thread crispness, while rangkat literally "colour cut"