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.

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Assam · Sualkuchi

Lotika Tussar Mekhela Sador

WT·AS·0108

₹16,990

  • Silk Mark certified
Material & craftsmanship
Golden-cream Tussar silk with a gentle slub and a crisp, structured drape. Its creepers are woven in as extra weft, in black and in a soft tone-on-tone gold.
What arrives
1 mekhela + 1 sador + 1 matching unstitched blouse piece
Stitching

Made to order. To be dispatched on or before 20 November.

Made by Deepa Kakoty, Sualkuchi

Since girlhood

About 170 hours of work

How a Tussar mekhela sador is made

The piece in detail

The sador end folded over, close up. Black and gold flowering creepers, black bands patterned with small cream florets, wavy gold lines, and tassels in black and in gold.

What is woven into it

The design is a flowering creeper, slender stems carrying blossoms and curling leaves, worked in black and in a soft tone-on-tone gold.

The sador keeps a plain golden-cream body, edged with a slim border of small black four-petal florets running beside a wavy gold line. Its end carries black creepers alternating with gold ones, then rows of black banding and wavy gold lines, and finishes in tassels of black and of gold.

On the mekhela the creepers climb from the hem in alternating columns of black and gold, above a hem band striped in black and gold.

The border where it crosses the collarbone: small black four-petal florets in a row beside a wavy gold line on golden-cream silk, over a black blouse, with a gold bead necklace.

Occasion & styling

Black on golden-cream works in the evening as well as by day: a reception, a formal dinner, a wedding, a puja, a festival or a cultural programme. Wear it with a black silk blouse, as here, for a sharp line, or a gold-beige blouse for a softer, tonal one.

With the black blouse, gold stands out: a Junbiri or a Dugdugi, temple gold, or a plain gold chain. Pleat the sador over the shoulder so the black border frames the neckline, and let the tasselled end fall free to show the creepers and the stripes.

How to wear a mekhela sador

The mekhela goes on first: step into it, draw it up to the waist, fold the pleats at the front and tuck them in. Then the sador: one end tucked in at the waist, taken round, and the rest carried across the front and over the left shoulder.

The film ends on the gold worn with it: the pendant, the ring, the earrings and the cuff.

The object

Every black creeper has a twin beside it in soft gold, so the pattern reads as light and shadow.

Accession code WT·AS·0108
Material Tussar silk, golden-cream ground, motifs in black and a soft tone-on-tone gold
Loom Handloom, motifs in extra weft
Origin Sualkuchi, Kamrup, Assam
Made by Deepa Kakoty
Hours of work About 170
Colour Golden-cream with black and a soft tone-on-tone gold
What arrives 1 mekhela + 1 sador + 1 matching unstitched blouse piece

Recorded by Wildtera, sent by the maker

Care

  • Dry clean only, and tell the cleaner it is Tussar with black motifs.
  • Never machine-wash it or leave it to soak: water can carry the black out of the motifs and into the pale ground, and it does not come back out.
  • Press it on the reverse at a low setting, with a cotton cloth between the iron and the motifs.
  • Fold it in muslin or cotton, never plastic, away from damp and direct sun, and refold it along new lines every few months.
  • Keep perfume and deodorant off the cloth.

Delivery and returns

Cancelling

Handmade orders cannot be cancelled once placed. You can still correct your address or phone number before it is dispatched.

If something is wrong

We do not accept returns for change of mind, colour or fit. If your piece arrives damaged, defective or not as ordered, send us a 10-second unboxing video within 48 hours of delivery and choose a full refund or a replacement.

Read the full returns policy

Questions before you buy

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Unstitched

Made to order. To be dispatched on or before 20 November.

Handmade orders cannot be cancelled once placed.

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