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Reeling of Zari
2016
Banglanatak
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
The zari are stored in reels which are used to make the designs on the Baluchari.
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- Title: Reeling of Zari
- Date Created: 2016
- Location: Murshidabad
- Subject Keywords: Handloom, Textile, Weaving, Craftspersons, Artists, Bengal, , Culture, Cultural Tourism
- Rights: banglanatk.com
- About the craft: Tapestry material was made from Baluchar silks which were originally used by nawabs and Muslim aristocrats of the Murshidabad district as";" however Hindu noblemen used the raw silk. Baluchar silk was woven into saris in which the ground scheme of decoration is a very wide pallu with a panel of mango or paisley motifs at the centre surrounded by smaller rectangles depicting different scenes. The sari borders were narrow with floral and foliage motifs and the fall of the sari was covered with small paisley and other floral designs in undemonstrated but bright colour schemes. Another familiar motif for the body of the sari was diagonal butis. Even today similar saris which have smaller anchalas are being woven at Murshidabad and Varanasi to match contemporary tastes. The traditional jala technique is used for this.
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