Dark Purple Check Handloom Maheshwari Silk Saree | Lakeer Red Dresses both carrying a repeating circular

both carrying a repeating circular geometric motif picked out in gold and yellow

Colour-fast - a strong red that does not bleed on the first wash

and on the textured canvas of Tussar silk

ready to place as a hem or yoke

It is opaque enough to wear unlined

Dark Purple Check Handloom Maheshwari Silk Saree | Lakeer Red Dresses both carrying a repeating circularDark purple, gold at the edge A dark, even purple with a fine check laid over it, and gold held at the borders where the drape falls open. The design The check is small enough to read as texture across the body, then repeats in gold along the broad border so the edge picks up light the body does not. The pallu closes the same way. The bugdi border reads the same on both faces. How it is woven Handwoven on a pit loom in Maheshwar, Khargone district,