Dark Violet Pure Handloom Maheshwari Silk Saree, Butta Body Design | Phulwari

Dark violet worked all over in small gold buti, under a wide gold and black border.

Why this piece

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  Violet taken dark — deep enough that the gold reads as warm metal against it rather than as ornament sitting on a bright ground.


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  Butta body — the whole field is worked in a repeating figure — this is the design buyers search for as butta body, and it is the reason this page has the pattern it has.


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  Black in the border — the wide border carries black alongside the gold, which sharpens the edge against the violet.

The colourway

Dark violet is a long colour to arrive at and an unforgiving one to hold steady, and it is the ground that takes gold best after black. The black worked into the border is what stops the gold from blurring into the violet at the edge.

How it is woven

Every piece is made end to end in Maheshwar, in the master-weaver households of Mominpura. This is hand weaving in the plain sense of it: a pit loom, a weft inserted by hand, and a dobby setting the buti across the body and the figures in the border. The pattern is built as the cloth is built, not printed on later.

Expect the small unevennesses that hand weaving leaves behind. They are evidence of how the cloth was made, and the piece is checked and finished before it leaves us either way.

The border, and how it wears

The border is woven bugdi: its design reads the same on both faces of the cloth. It is the detail in this weave most worth turning over and looking at.

The figures are ours, measured in-house: 350 to 360 g, 44 to 46 GSM. Light enough for warm weather and long wear, soft enough to pleat closely, and semi-sheer through the body, so wear it over a petticoat.

Specification

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  Total length: 6.3–6.5 m, including an 80–90 cm blouse piece


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  Width: 45–46 inches


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  Weight: 350–360 g, measured in-house


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  Fabric weight: 44–46 GSM


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  Body: semi-sheer; wear it with a petticoat


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  Drape: soft, holds its pleats, and stays soft after the first clean


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  Loom: pit loom, with the weft inserted by hand


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  Patterning: dobby-set, on body, border and pallu


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  Finishing: pallu kuchu, selvedge and edges finished; fall and pico on request


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  Woven in: Maheshwar, Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh


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  Country of origin: India


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  Net quantity: one saree with attached blouse piece


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  Care: Dry Clean Only

Care and storage

1. Professional dry clean only. Home washing is not recommended.


2. Air-dry in the shade, without wringing.


3. Iron inside out on a low-to-medium setting, under a cotton press cloth.


4. Store it wrapped in breathable cotton or muslin, in a cool dark cupboard.


5. Refold along fresh lines every three to six months.

Dispatch

This piece is held in stock rather than made to order, so hand weaving does not put you in a queue. About half of all orders leave the next day, most go within two to three days, and most orders inside India arrive in three to seven days.

A note on colour

This piece is a dark violet, bordered in gold and black. Screens, camera settings and the light a photograph was taken in all move a shade a little, so the piece that reaches you may sit slightly away from the image on this page. Every colour in this range has been tested for fastness on wash and rub.

Product details

Country of origin: India. Net quantity: one saree with attached blouse piece. Care: Dry Clean Only.

Fabric / Material	Maheshwari Silk
Craft / Technique	Handloom Weaving
Colour	Violet
Origin / Cluster	Maheshwar

It comes off a loom in Mominpura, the weaving quarter inside Maheshwar. Pit loom, weft inserted by hand, dobby carrying the buti across the body and the figures through the border — that is the whole method, and nothing has replaced it. An all-over butta body is the hardest kind of patterning to keep honest: the figure has to land at the same interval along six and a half metres, and a drift of a few millimetres accumulates into something the eye catches the moment the saree is pleated. The wide border is then built in beside it, gold against black. The finished cloth weighs 350 to 360 g at 44 to 46 GSM. Its border is bugdi, its woven design reading the same on both faces, and the small slubs of a hand-inserted weft are the part no machine reproduces.

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