What Defines a Chanderi
Transparent body, scattered butis.
Three things define a Chanderi: the sheer, glassy transparency of the body (called chanderi-zari), the tiny gold-zari buti motifs scattered across it (peacock, coin, jasmine, lotus — never random), and the contrasting pallu and border with a fuller weave.
Our Chanderi comes from a master weaver family — three generations on the pit loom. They use Ponduru hand-spun cotton weft and pure mulberry silk warp. Where natural dyes are possible, they are used: indigo, madder, pomegranate. Where they are not, AZO-free dyes only.