Kota Doria Cotton Saree Ivory Hand Painted Frangipani

This Kota Doria saree is a soft ivory its sheer cotton silk ground carrying large hand painted frangipani plumeria blooms white petals brushed with a wash of yellow at the heart set against broad green leaves trailing across the pallu and gathering along the body and skirt A fine gold zari edge frames the open airy khat weave Every flower here is painted by hand and it shows No two blooms are identical petal outlines waver where the brush lifted the yellow centres vary in weight and the leaves carry visible brushstrokes The colour soaks softly into the sheer cloth rather than sitting on top of it A powerloom print lays a perfect repeating flower onto uniform synthetic squares a hand painted Kota Doria like this one shows brush texture slight asymmetry and the faintly irregular khat grid of cotton and silk threads that lets light straight through Kota Doria is woven in Kaithoon near Kota in Rajasthan on looms passed down through weaving families then hand painted by local artists The fine yarn is sized with a traditional rice or onion starch paste before weaving the step that lets such a near transparent cloth survive the loom A statement soft saree for daytime celebration a summer wedding function a brunch a haldi or mehendi worn over a fitted blouse with delicate gold jewellery that lets the painting lead