Olive Green Pure Handloom Maheshwari Silk Saree, Banded Blue Pallu | Nakshatra

An olive green body ending in a blue pallu banded across in metal.

Why this piece

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  Olive, not bottle green — grey and yellow held inside the green, which is why it reads muted and goes with far more than a bright green would.


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  Banded blue pallu — the pallu is worked in horizontal metallic bands across its width, against a blue that sits deeper than the body.


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  Featherlight — 350 to 360 g at 44 to 46 GSM, semi-sheer through the body, all of it measured here.

The colourway

Olive is green with the brightness taken out of it, and against a deeper blue it reads restrained rather than decorative. This is the piece to reach for when you want the cloth noticed before the colour.

How it is woven

It was woven in Maheshwar, in Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh. The loom is a pit loom, sunk into the floor so the weaver works with the treadles below. Every pick of weft goes in by hand, and a dobby sets the buti and the border on body, border and pallu alike. Nothing we sell is machine-woven, and the weaver confirms each piece off the loom.

Expect the small unevennesses that hand weaving leaves behind. They are evidence of how the cloth was made, and the piece is checked and finished before it leaves us either way.

The border, and how it wears

The border is woven bugdi: its design reads the same on both faces of the cloth. It is the detail in this weave most worth turning over and looking at.

It weighs 350 to 360 g at 44 to 46 GSM — weighed here rather than guessed at from the look of it. That is a saree you can wear through a long evening without feeling it on your shoulder, and the body is semi-sheer, so a petticoat goes underneath.

Specification

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  Total length: 6.3–6.5 m, including an 80–90 cm blouse piece


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  Width: 45–46 inches


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  Weight: 350–360 g, measured in-house


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  Fabric weight: 44–46 GSM


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  Body: semi-sheer; wear it with a petticoat


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  Drape: soft, holds its pleats, and stays soft after the first clean


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  Loom: pit loom, with the weft inserted by hand


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  Patterning: dobby-set, on body, border and pallu


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  Finishing: pallu kuchu, selvedge and edges finished; fall and pico on request


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  Woven in: Maheshwar, Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh


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  Country of origin: India


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  Net quantity: one saree with attached blouse piece


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  Care: Dry Clean Only

Care and storage

1. Professional dry clean only. Home washing is not recommended.


2. Air-dry in the shade, without wringing.


3. Iron inside out on a low-to-medium setting, under a cotton press cloth.


4. Store it wrapped in breathable cotton or muslin, in a cool dark cupboard.


5. Refold along fresh lines every three to six months.

Dispatch

This piece is held in stock rather than made to order, so hand weaving does not put you in a queue. About half of all orders leave the next day, most go within two to three days, and most orders inside India arrive in three to seven days.

A note on colour

This piece is olive green through the body, with a blue pallu. Screens, camera settings and the light a photograph was taken in all move a shade a little, so the piece that reaches you may sit slightly away from the image on this page. Every colour in this range has been tested for fastness on wash and rub.

Product details

Country of origin: India. Net quantity: one saree with attached blouse piece. Care: Dry Clean Only.

Fabric / Material	Maheshwari Silk
Craft / Technique	Handloom Weaving, Buti Weaving
Colour	Green
Origin / Cluster	Maheshwar

The Handloom Mark is held on record for these pieces, and behind the record is a pit loom in Maheshwar with the weft going in by hand. A dobby carries the small buti across the body and the bands through the pallu. Olive is a mixed colour, and mixed colours are the hard ones: too much grey and it goes dead, too much yellow and it stops being olive at all, and it has to hold the same reading along six and a half metres. Set against a deeper blue and banded in metal, it becomes a quieter piece than most of what this loom produces. The cloth weighs 350 to 360 g at 44 to 46 GSM, pleats closely and stays soft through cleaning. The border is bugdi, its woven design reading the same on both faces, and the marks left by a hand-inserted weft stay in.

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