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.

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Assam · Sualkuchi

Pokhi Tussar Mekhela Sador

WT·AS·0095

₹25,900

  • Silk Mark certified
Material & craftsmanship
Golden-beige Tussar silk with a gentle slub and a crisp drape that holds a pleat. Its motifs are woven in as extra weft in vermilion, leaf green, marigold yellow and ivory.
What arrives
1 mekhela + 1 sador + 1 matching unstitched blouse piece
Stitching

Made to order. Dispatched in 20 days.

Made by Deepa Kakoty, Sualkuchi

Since girlhood

About 180 hours of work

How a Tussar mekhela sador is made

The piece in detail

A corner of the drape close up. Red birds, red trees and small green and yellow marks on the beige ground, beside wide red bands of diamonds and rosettes edged with fine yellow lines.

What is woven into it

The weaver calls this design GosMari. Small red birds and stylised red trees are scattered over the golden-beige body of the sador, with little florets in green and yellow between them.

Its long edge carries a wide red border, a dense lattice of diamonds and rosettes in red, green and yellow, between fine golden lines. Towards the end, slender stripes of green, red and yellow lead into a red end panel worked edge to edge in the same lattice.

The mekhela repeats that lattice in a deep red lower panel.

The border where it crosses the chest, worn with a thin gold necklace and a red blouse. A wide red band of diamonds and rosettes in red, green and yellow on the beige ground, with red birds and trees beside it.

Occasion & styling

For festivals, weddings, pujas, cultural programmes and family celebrations. Wear it with a red silk blouse, as here, for the classic pairing, or a plain Tussar blouse for a softer, tonal one.

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

Dense red lattice at the border, the end and the hem, and open golden-beige ground between, where the red birds and trees stand.

Accession code WT·AS·0095
Material Tussar silk, golden-beige ground, motifs in vermilion red with green, yellow and ivory (motif yarn not yet confirmed)
Loom Handloom, motifs in extra weft
Origin Sualkuchi, Kamrup, Assam
Made by Deepa Kakoty
Hours of work About 180
Colour Golden-beige with vermilion red; green, yellow and ivory accents
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 red motifs.
  • Never machine-wash it or leave it to soak: water can carry the red out of the motifs and into the beige 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.

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Unstitched

Made to order. Dispatched in 20 days.

Handmade orders cannot be cancelled once placed.

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