

Red on red, gold above. This bridal katan silk dupatta is woven on an ombré red warp — dyed in sections before weaving so the colour shifts across the length of the piece from a deep crimson-red through coral and salmon to a warm blush-pink, with no hard boundary between the tones. The weft is red katan silk, which means the ground is a pure, fully saturated silk — no metallic base, no sheen from the weft, just the deep warmth of red-on-red katan. Over this, the complete text of Bhagavad Gita shloka 2.47 — "Karmanye vadhikaraste ma phaleshu kadachana" — is woven as an extra weft in light gold zari, running in continuous horizontal text stripes across the full width from selvedge to selvedge. The Sanskrit script is legible in the weave, the gold reading as a warm, restrained shimmer against the deep red ground — present and meaningful without overpowering the colour beneath it. The border and tassel finish carry the same considered construction as the rest of the piece, providing a formal frame to the gradient body. At 44 inches wide, this is a full-body dupatta — wide enough to drape as a bridal dupatta, wear as a shawl, or use as a ceremonial wrap. The width and the weight of kat
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