01 — Varanasi
Banarasi Brocade
Silver zari gilded in 24k gold, woven on pit looms in the kadhua technique — every motif a separate island of gold, with not one loose thread on the reverse.
- Weave
- 180 days
- Zari
- 98.5% silver-gilt
- Loom
- Pit loom, two weavers



