Marigold Orange Tussar Silk Saree with Ikat Fusion Border and Zardosi Buttas

Warm and unmistakably festive, this Marigold Orange Tussar Silk Saree sets a saturated orange ground against a deep purple ikat border — two very different textile languages brought together on one drape. The body carries small embroidered buttas worked in multicoloured thread with fine gold outlining, each one a compact paisley-and-parrot cluster, spaced in a clean grid and punctuated by tiny gold zari buds in between.

The border is the fusion note: a wide purple ikat band in the patola vocabulary of elephants, parrots and dancing figures, resolved in white, green, turquoise and yellow, and finished along the edge with a rani pink piping. A gold gota lace runs where the ikat meets the orange, so the join reads as a deliberate seam rather than a patch. The pallu corner opens into a large kalga paisley in gold zardosi, filled with green and lilac thread and ringed by scrolling gold vines and sequins. The unstitched blouse piece is in matching marigold orange with the same embroidered buttas and a gold lace edge.

Saree Length: 5.5meters
Blouse Piece Length: 0.8 meters
Recommended Care: Dry clean only

Ikat is a resist technique worked on yarn rather than cloth. Sections of the thread are tied off and dyed before a single pick reaches the loom, so the pattern is already carried in the yarn — and because the tied edges bleed slightly, the motifs emerge with a soft, feathered outline that no print can imitate. Here that band of elephants, parrots and dancing figures is set as a border against a plain tussar body, with gold gota lace masking the join. The buttas on the body are then embroidered by hand: coloured silk thread fills each paisley and parrot, and zardosi — metallic coiled wire couched onto the surface — outlines the forms and builds the large kalga at the pallu corner.

The tussar base is woven in Bhagalpur, Bihar — the country's largest tussar silk cluster, where the wild-reeled yarn has been handled for generations. The ikat border draws on the patola tradition of Patan and Rajkot in Gujarat, and the embroidery and finishing are carried out by karigars in Gujarat, where contrast borders and gota work are long-standing specialities.

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