Modal Silk Ajrakh Hand Block Charkhana Banarasi Saree in Mustard Teal

Mustard and teal is the heartland of the Ajrakh palette, two colours that have been in conversation with each other across centuries of block printing. This modal silk carries that conversation across every centimetre of the fabric. The body is a dense geometric charkhana grid, teal squares interlocking on a mustard ground with a four-petal flower or star form at the centre of each unit. The coverage is total and precise. The border builds in scale and complexity through layered bands, running scrolls, large diamond medallion forms, and a peacock feather drop row at the outer edge. The pallu shifts to bold diamond medallion forms in white on mustard with teal outlines, the scale generous and unhurried. Modal silk takes Ajrakh hand block work with a particular softness and drape that cotton cannot give. The colours sit deeper into the fibre and the fabric moves differently on the body. Two colours, one fabric, centuries of craft.