The Dhakai Jamdanis we wore were always fragile. They tore easily after a couple of wears and no one knew why. After my Qissaa journey began I met savants and I learnt that the sarees made are a mix of silk and cotton, the sturdier cotton cut the silk yarn.  However the ones from Bangladesh are all cotton. The costs differ according to the number of colours used. For the hand woven ones the reverse looked almost as good as the front. The embroidered “bootis” had a beginning and end and the threads were not passed across and cut.

This stunner in indigo has many colours and is a copy of a museum piece, made in Bangladesh, commissioned by Papri.

 

Credit @sadaf @papribasak