The Rust Sambalpuri Ikat

Sarees

The Rust Sambalpuri Ikat

₹8,499

A Sambalpuri cotton saree in rust, warp and weft resist-dyed and tied separately before weaving so the pattern only resolves on the loom.

Colourway — Rust

Free size, 6.1m with blouse piece

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The Weaver's Note

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Sambalpuri Double Ikat (Bandha) · Bargarh, Odisha

Ikat is a resist-dye technique where the yarn — not the finished cloth — is tied and dyed in sections before it ever reaches the loom, so the weaver has to align warp and weft with real precision for the pattern to resolve correctly. In Odisha this local variant is called Bandha; a related tradition in Telangana's Pochampally is woven the same way with its own motif vocabulary. Because the pattern lives in the dyed yarn itself, both faces of the the rust sambalpuri ikat show the same design — a signature that machine printing can't fake. The slightly soft-edged, almost blurred motif line is the tell of genuine hand-tied ikat.

Traditional rudraksha and conch-shell motifs, single-shuttle handloom weave.

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