Pure Katan Silk Kadwa Meenakari Banarasi Saree in Royal Purple salaidar The pallu shifts to geometry

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

Handwoven with precision and love

one of India's oldest tribal art forms

Available in a range of dyed shades

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

Pure Katan Silk Kadwa Meenakari Banarasi Saree in Royal Purple salaidar The pallu shifts to geometryRoyal 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