Deep Green Pure Handloom Maheshwari Silk Saree, Royal Blue Pallu | Nakshatra

A deep green body blocked cleanly against a royal blue pallu banded in gold.

Why this piece

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  Green against blue — a clean colour block rather than a graded change — the two colours meet at a line and neither gives way.


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  Gold banding — the blue pallu is banded horizontally in metallic gold across its width.


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  Measured cloth — 350 to 360 g at 44 to 46 GSM, semi-sheer body, soft drape that holds its pleats.

The colourway

Deep green and royal blue are both saturated and neither is warm, which is why this reads as a considered pairing rather than a bright one. The gold banding at the pallu is the only warm thing in the piece and it does a lot of work for that.

How it is woven

It comes off a loom in Mominpura, the weaving quarter inside Maheshwar. Woven on a pit loom with the weft inserted by hand. The buti scattered over the body and the figures in the border are dobby-set on the loom itself, on body, border and pallu.

Small irregularities in the weave come with the method — a slub, a slightly uneven pick. They are the fingerprint of a hand-inserted weft, not a fault in a finished piece.

The border, and how it wears

The border is a bugdi border: the woven border design reads the same on both faces. Turn the edge over at the fall and the figures come up the same way.

350 to 360 g of cloth at 44 to 46 GSM. It falls close to the body, takes a deep pleat and keeps it, and reads semi-sheer through the body — a petticoat is part of wearing it.

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 deep green through the body, with a royal blue pallu. 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, Buti Weaving
Colour	Green, Blue
Origin / Cluster	Maheshwar

This saree is made end to end in Maheshwar, in the master-weaver households of Mominpura. It was woven on a pit loom, the weft put in by hand pick after pick, with a dobby setting the small buti across the body and the gold bands through the pallu. Two saturated colours meeting at a line is a decision taken before the first pick is thrown, and the line itself has to be clean across the full width of the drape because nothing softens it. The blue is then banded in metal, band parallel to band, judged by eye. The cloth weighs 350 to 360 g at 44 to 46 GSM and keeps a deep pleat through a long evening. The border is bugdi, so the woven border design reads the same on both faces, and the odd slub left by a hand-inserted weft stays in the cloth.

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