The layout

The top runs a close repeat of small floral sprigs. The dupatta switches to panels, with larger leafing vines worked in green, white and blue against the brown and yellow grounds, and a linear triangular border closing the hem.

Two colour grounds in one set gives your tailor a choice most suit pieces do not: cut the yoke or the sleeve from the contrasting tone and the outfit gains a detail without any extra fabric.

Wearing it

Brown and yellow is autumnal and warm, and it suits older skin tones particularly well, which makes it an easy gift for a mother or mother-in-law: unstitched fabric needs no size guessing.

The panelled construction is what separates it from a plain printed length. You are getting several blocks and several grounds in one 2.5 metre run, all struck by hand.

The set

Top: 2.5 m, 44 to 45 inches wide
Bottom: 2.5 m, 44 to 45 inches wide
Dupatta: 2.5 m, 35 to 36 inches wide
Fabric: Katan silk, opaque, no lining needed
Craft: hand block printed with hand-carved wooden blocks in Bhagalpur
Weight: 600 to 650 g for top, bottom and dupatta together
Stitching: stitched to your fit up to 4XL, length customisable
Care: dry clean the first time, then a gentle cold hand wash
Dispatch: Dispatched the next working day.

Small shifts in the print, a motif set a little off its neighbour, a shade that deepens where the block pressed twice: these are the marks of a hand at work, not flaws in the cloth.

Brown & Yellow Katan Silk Suit, Panel Print | Bagiya