Handwoven Banarasi Katan Silk Ektara Rangkat Jangla Saree in Lilac Purple dusty lilac teal and orange woven through

teal and orange woven through the sheer pink ground

Brocade is the woven pattern which is purely decorative and independent of the structure of the cloth which is achieved using extra pattern weft or extra warp

The border carries a dense jangla of flowers and birds in gold zari

distinguished by a rath (chariot) border worked in gold zari along the pallu end

painterly richness

Handwoven Banarasi Katan Silk Ektara Rangkat Jangla Saree in Lilac Purple dusty lilac teal and orange woven throughA lilac purple katan silk saree handwoven in Varanasi in the Ektara weave, the body covered in a jangla a dense, all over jaal of floral vines in silver zari. The pallu and border are worked in the rangkat style, with vertical stripe bands shifting between lilac and periwinkle blue, divided by silver zari and touched with meena floral detailing. The Ektara weave gives the saree a fine, single thread crispness, while rangkat literally "colour cut"