Deepa Kakoty seated against a lilac panelled door, in a golden-beige mekhela sador patterned in red and a red blouse, hands folded in her lap, looking away to one side.
Deepa Kakoty wearing Xarodi Tussar Mekhela Sador, WT·AS·0097
Place
Sualkuchi, Kamrup, Assam
Makes
Mekhela sador
Works in
Tussar, Paat, Kesapat
At the craft
Since girlhood
On this site
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In Deepa Kakoty's own words

Filmed in Sualkuchi, September 2026.

The work has to be done very delicately and carefully, which takes a lot of time.

Pieces by Deepa Kakoty

In Tussar, Paat and Kesapat.

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Seated on a chrome chair against a lilac panelled door, in a red blouse, looking to one side. A golden-beige drape with small red motifs, bordered and ended in dense red lattice, over a mekhela with a red lower panel.

Pokhi Tussar Mekhela Sador

₹25,900

Seated on a chair against a panelled door, the whole set visible. A plain golden-cream body with a border and hem of large red paisleys, worn with a maroon blouse.

Lajuki Tussar Mekhela Sador

₹22,790

Seated against a lilac panelled door in a red blouse, the whole set visible to the floor. A golden-beige drape dotted with small red florets and edged with copper-peach motifs, over a mekhela worked in red below the knee, red tassels at the end.

Xarodi Tussar Mekhela Sador

₹22,700

Standing against a lilac panelled door in a maroon blouse, hands folded at the waist, framed from head to knee. A golden-peach drape with a faint tonal pattern throughout, its end worked in red and green at the lower right.

Mati Tussar Mekhela Sador

₹25,900

Standing against a panelled door, the whole set visible. A deep emerald body scattered with rose-gold buti, over a hem panel of dense zari lattice.

Morakot Pat Mekhela Sador

₹20,990

Seated on a chair against a panelled door, the whole set visible. A rose-pink drape over a vivid magenta mekhela worked with golden-orange zari at the hem.

Rangdhali Pat Mekhela Sador

₹17,990

Standing against a panelled door, the whole set visible. An ivory body scattered with small gold mushroom motifs, over a mekhela hem worked in dense gold zari.

Juhi Kesapat Mekhela Sador

₹22,990

Seated on a granite staircase, looking off to one side, the whole set visible. A grey drape scattered with round maroon and copper flowers, over a lilac mekhela whose lower half is copper lattice, maroon tassels at the sador end.

Rupohi Pat Mekhela Sador

₹20,990

Seated against a pale panelled door, sunlight falling across the floor, the whole set visible. A black drape over a red blouse, scattered with red and green squares and round gold flowers, the mekhela crossed by gold bands, small coloured tassels at the sador end.

Nixa Pat Mekhela Sador

₹17,990

Seated on a chair by a sunlit window, the whole set visible: a sand-beige mekhela and sador with saffron florets and saffron tassels, worn with a matching blouse and a red bead necklace.

Polax Pat Mekhela Sador

₹21,990

Seated against a lilac panelled door beside a potted plant, the whole set visible. A golden-cream drape dotted with pink and gold, over a mekhela hem of tall rani pink paisleys and a deep pink border, worn with a rani pink blouse.

Anondi Tussar Mekhela Sador

₹15,990

Seated on a chair against a lilac panelled door, looking away to the left, the whole set visible. A golden-cream body scattered with small orange and black motifs, and the checked end of the sador hanging from the lap to the floor in a row of orange and black tassels.

Komola Tussar Mekhela Sador

₹15,900

Standing against a white door, the whole set visible: a cream sador and mekhela with green vine borders and green striped panels at the hem.

Kuhipat Tussar Mekhela Sador

₹16,990

Seated against a lilac panelled door in a black blouse, the whole set visible to the floor. A golden-cream drape edged in black falls from the shoulder, and black and gold creepers climb the hem, beside a brass xorai and a potted rubber plant.

Lotika Tussar Mekhela Sador

₹16,990

How a Tussar mekhela sador is made