Black & White Block Print Katan Silk Suit | Bagiya

White vines run edge to edge across deep black silk, with a contrast dupatta.

Why this piece

• Colour-fast - the black does not bleed on the first wash.


• Opaque enough to wear without a lining, though one can be added to lift the look.


• The vine repeat covers the top edge to edge, with the panelled border saved for the dupatta.

The print

Every leaf and vine here was stamped by hand with a carved wooden block, one impression at a time. Follow the repeat closely and you will find a place where the outline sits a hair off register, or where the black has printed a shade heavier. That small unevenness is how genuine hand block work announces itself, and it is the one thing a screen or machine print cannot imitate.

The silk

Katan silk gives this piece its quiet sheen and enough body to fall in a clean line rather than cling. The fabric is opaque, so no lining is needed, though adding one will formalise the finish. All three pieces together weigh only 600 to 650 grams, so it carries light and wears light through a long day.

Wearing it

Black and white is the easiest palette in a wardrobe to accessorise - oxidised silver or a single strand of pearls, and the print does the rest. It reads sober enough for the office and sharp enough for an evening dinner. If you have been weighing a hand block cotton suit against a woven silk one, this sits in the gap between them: genuine hand block craft on silk, at a price well below a premium Banarasi set.

The set

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  Top: 2.5 metres, 44 to 45 inches wide


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  Bottom: 2.5 metres, 44 to 45 inches wide


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  Dupatta: 2.5 metres, 35 to 36 inches wide


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  Weight: 600 to 650 grams for top, bottom and dupatta together


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  Stitching: can be stitched up to 4XL, with length customised


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  Care: dry clean the first wash, then a gentle cold hand wash


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  Craft: hand block printed with hand-carved wooden blocks


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  Collection: Bagiya
  

Hand block printed in Bhagalpur and dispatched the next working day.

Because each length is printed by hand, no two pieces align exactly - the small shifts in the repeat are the maker's mark, not a fault.

Fabric / Material	Katan Silk
Craft / Technique	Hand Block Print
Colour	Black
Origin / Cluster	Bhagalpur

In the printing sheds of Bhagalpur, a length of Katan silk is smoothed flat along a padded table that runs the length of the room. The printer works from one end to the other, lifting a hand-carved wooden block, pressing it into the dye tray, then bringing it down onto the silk with the flat of his hand - a sound like a slow heartbeat, repeated a few thousand times before a single suit length is finished. He carries the repeat in his eye rather than on a guide, which is why the vines on this black length lean and gather in a way no two lengths ever share. Bhagalpur has worked silk for generations, and this way of printing it - by hand, block by block - is the part of that inheritance that cannot be mechanised without being lost.

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