Banarasi Katan Silk Mughal Buta Skirt Border Saree (As Seen on Kalki Koechlin) Shirts The result is a fabric

The result is a fabric with unmatched body

Craft: Dense all-over tonal Gulistan (floral garden) Resham Jaal hand embroidery — black-on-black

this saree features the traditional char khana grid — a pattern of zari-etched squares that speak of structure

Adorned with a graceful double leaf motif rendered in alternating silver and gold zari

hemline and short sleeves

Banarasi Katan Silk Mughal Buta Skirt Border Saree (As Seen on Kalki Koechlin) Shirts The result is a fabricThe Mughal court gave Banarasi weaving its most enduring design vocabulary the buta, the jaal, the dense floral repeat that speaks simultaneously of nature and geometry. This saree carries that tradition forward with a skirt style border that frames the drape like architecture: the buta motifs clustered at the hem in pure zari, drawing the eye downward in the most graceful way possible. Kalki Koechlin, whose eye for understated Indian craft is well