Woven Leheria Cotton Zig zags -Details

The Leheria or wave pattern appears here in a dramatic woven fabric, drawing upon the tendency in historical Indian textiles for bold geometry. Being an important aspect of design considerations for Visvakarma, similarly patterned textiles were woven in Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh in brocade and in Patan, Gujarat in the double-ikat patola technique. Their popularity has continued well into the present. Such patterns and sensibilities are, equally, found across other decorative arts and architecture in India, and in materials such as wood, metal and stone.

Zig zags, the meeting of two angled lines have been a traditional design in ancient pottery and textiles executed in jamdani technique (the Persian word for discontinuous supplementary weft) in the field of this exhibit. The technique of Jamdani weaving in the Venkatagiri cluster is a recent development. Moving away from the typical floral designs and scrolls, jamdani has been employed here with geometrical precision to achieve a modern sensibility.