Description
Black base tassar silk saree with extra weft red and white double diamond border with a stripped blouse. Extra weft is the traditional weave of Bihar, India and Baavanbuti saris are woven inserting, a spool of extrayarn known as, extra weft to the standard weft that holds the warp together to create 52 motifs for it to be called a ‘Baavanbuti sari’. This weave, as the elderly weavers inform, is nearly 300 years old.
Description
Black base tassar silk saree with extra weft red and white double diamond border with a stripped blouse. Extra weft is the traditional weave of Bihar, India and Baavanbuti saris are woven inserting, a spool of extrayarn known as, extra weft to the standard weft that holds the warp together to create 52 motifs for it to be called a ‘Baavanbuti sari’. This weave, as the elderly weavers inform, is nearly 300 years old.