Banarasi · Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Aubergine Mushroo Silk Checkered Banarasi Saree — Kashi Assi 80 Ghat
Checkered Body with Woven Booti · Kashi Assi Ghat Border · Kanjeewaram-Inspired · Blouse Included
A deep aubergine Mushroo silk saree woven all over in a fine checkered ground scattered with small tree-like zari butis. The pallu and border are the showpiece — a wide, richly woven panel in the Kashi Assi style, depicting the ghats of Varanasi with temples, domes and birds in warm antique gold, in the spirit of Kanjeewaram's contrast wide borders reimagined on a Banarasi loom. Blouse included.
Fabric
Mushroo Silk
Technique
Zari Brocade · Figural Weave
Length
6.3 metres
Blouse
0.8 metres included
Colour
Aubergine
Region
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
The Kashi ghat motif is one of the most revered designs in Banarasi weaving — a living map of the city itself, with its ghats, temples and skyline captured in silk and zari. Framing it as a wide, contrast-toned border — rather than a narrow edge — is a deliberate nod to the Kanjeewaram tradition of South India, where the border does the visual heavy lifting. It's a meeting point between two of India's great silk-weaving cultures.
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