Pure Katan Silk Shikargah Charkhana Animal Motif Banarasi Saree in Deep Magenta

The shikargah tradition places the natural world across the full body of the saree. This Katan silk takes that tradition and gives it structure — a charkhana grid of square panels outlined in green dotted lines covers the deep magenta ground from edge to border, each square enclosing a different creature from the shikargah vocabulary: elephants, horses, peacocks, roosters, deer, parrots. Every animal is kadwa-woven in cream and gold zari with meenakari colour accents in red, green, blue, and grey, the detail precise enough that each motif reads as a miniature in silk. The border is wide and ornate — a dense gold zari phulwar bel with kalgha forms and meenakari colour accents, the richness of the border in deliberate contrast to the structured, grid-based body. A saree for significant occasions where the craft is part of the occasion itself. Video