Natural Beige Warli Print Tussar Silk Saree with Navy Border – Bhagalpuri

Aranya

Undyed tussar left mostly to itself, with small figures scattered across the body — and then a pallu that fills completely: sun-wheel medallions, tall trees with birds in their branches, rows of elephants and deer, and villagers moving between them. A solid navy border closes it.

About the print

This is Warli work — the figures built from two triangles meeting at the waist, a circle for the head, four strokes for limbs, with no shading and no modelling anywhere. Around them the printer has set the rest of the tradition's vocabulary: comb and ladder bands dividing the registers, triangle rows, and the radiating sun-wheels that anchor each end of the pallu.

The palette is black line with brick red, mustard and navy, which keeps it closer to earth than to decoration. And the restraint on the body is what makes the piece work — leaving most of the cloth plain means the pallu lands with real weight when it falls.

About the fabric

Tussar Ghicha silk, handwoven in Bhagalpur, left undyed. Ghicha is the yarn drawn from the outer layers of the cocoon and spun by hand, which gives the cloth its slubby texture and soft matte lustre. The natural beige is the yarn's own colour — nothing has been bleached out to make a ground for the print.

Details

• Fabric: Tussar Ghicha Silk
• Colour: Natural beige with navy, red and mustard
• Print: Warli
• Body: Plain, with widely scattered figures
• Border: Solid navy with a sawtooth edge
• Pallu: Dense Warli panel — sun medallions, trees, elephants, deer and figures
• Blouse piece: unstitched, 0.8 m
• Saree length: 5.5 m | Width: 1.1 m
• Care: Dry clean only. Store wrapped in cotton or muslin, refold along a different line every few months.

A note on handloom

Each piece is woven individually, so slight irregularities in the slub and small variations in how the print falls across the weave are characteristic of the craft rather than defects. Colour may vary a little from your screen.