Dusty Rose Tussar Silk Banarasi Saree with Meenakari Zari Medallions and Red Border

A soft, dusty rose ground gives this Tussar Silk Banarasi Saree its warmth — a pink that reads closer to old terracotta than to candy, and one that takes antique gold zari particularly well. The body is patterned with small floral butis in close rows, diamond-shaped kalga medallions filled with pink, coral and mustard resham, and long scalloped jhaalar swags that hang between them like drawn garlands.

The border is a contrast red band carrying a floral jaal in gold and cream zari, the vine turning through lotus heads and paisley tips along its length. Just inside it, fine zari stripes and a narrower vine band ease the drape from rose into red. The pallu carries a large chandrakala mandala — concentric rings of zari scallop and openwork vine radiating out from a single flower, with blooms picked out in coral, pink, green and mustard around the outer band, so the gold circle is ringed in colour. The unstitched blouse piece is a red brocade covered in gold zari kalgas, finished with a red and zari striped edge.

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

Meenakari on a Banarasi loom is brocade with colour let into the gold. The medallion is first drawn in zari — its scallops, its radiating vine, its centre flower — and then coloured resham is introduced bloom by bloom inside that frame, each shade carried on its own small shuttle, worked in and cut off, the way enamel is set into a gold jewel. Nothing repeats automatically: the weaver reads the design from the naksha and places every colour by hand. The chandrakala at the pallu is drawn in openwork so the ground reads through the vine, and the jhaalar swags across the body come from the same architectural grammar of arches and hanging garlands that runs through Banaras design.

This saree is woven in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh — the Banaras cluster, where handloom brocade has been worked for centuries and where meenakari, chandrakala and jangla techniques all belong to the local repertoire. Tussar, called munga silk in Banaras, has become a favoured ground for lighter brocades that carry zari without the weight of katan silk.

कृपया ध्यान दें कि डिवाइस स्क्रीन और मॉनिटर सेटिंग्स में भिन्नता के कारण, वास्तविक उत्पाद का रंग दिखाई गई तस्वीरों से थोड़ा भिन्न हो सकता है। प्रत्येक स्क्रीन की अपनी रंग प्रदर्शित करने की क्षमता होती है, जो आपके डिवाइस पर उत्पाद के दिखने के तरीके को प्रभावित कर सकती है।