Pagri, Turban

Laheria, literally ‘waves’, and therefore ‘wave pattern’, is a resist-dyed fabric in which very fine cloth material is rolled diagonally and then resisted by tightly binding threads at a small distance from one another. When dipped in dye, the reserved areas develop stripes in the ground colour. By repeating the process with or without untying the previous bindings, stripes of different colours can be obtained. If the cloth is opened after the completion of the above process and rolled again diagonally from another corner and resist-dyed by repeating this process, there will be a trellis or checked pattern. Laheria is used mainly in Rajasthan, but also in parts of Madhya Pradesh for women’s blouses and veil cloths and men’s turbans.
This particular turban cloth is dyed by warp resist technique and has gold brocaded end which appears as a crowning element on top when the turban is tied