Woven Check Cotton Kurti Set Terracotta Indigo 3 Piece

A three piece cotton set built around a handloom woven check a terracotta orange kurti crossed by a fine violet windowpane grid and scattered with small woven violet square butti through the body It pairs with a straight cut indigo pant and a solid indigo cotton dupatta finished with a woven gold zari striped border and knotted tassel fringe The kurti sits at knee length with a mandarin notch neck three quarter sleeves and side slits How to tell this is a woven handloom check rather than a printed one hold the cloth to the light and the violet lines are clearly threads crossing the orange warp not ink on the surface the check reads the same on the reverse and the little square butti show their carry threads on the back where a print would leave the underside blank The cotton has the crisp lightweight faintly slubby hand that pit loom weaving gives machine cotton feels flat and uniform On the dupatta the gold border is real zari woven into the cloth the stripe shows on both faces and is interlocked into the body never printed or stuck on top The plain or checked cotton body with a contrast zari border is the signature of the Mangalgiri and Venkatagiri weaving belt of Andhra Pradesh where the border zari is worked in by hand on traditional looms Slight unevenness in the check spacing and a border that sits a hair off true are fingerprints of that hand process not defects An easy set for office days festive lunches and family functions it styles complete out of the box Drape the dupatta in a front V as shown and add oxidised silver jhumkas glass bangles and Kolhapuri flats See size chart for measurements