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Raahiya is the kind of Banarasi silk that reminds you why this craft is called an art.

Woven painstakingly in pure mulberry silk using the ancient hand-kadhua technique, every motif here was placed by the weaver’s hand, one shuttle, one thought at a time. The burgundy base is rich and deep, chosen for its royal quietude, while the silver zari catches light with the subtlety of moonlit marble.

The saree unfolds in chapters. It begins with a soft spread of butas, a prelude of restraint. The pleating section follows, where the jamawar weave takes over, every inch breathing with dense, intertwining patterns inspired by old Mughal gardens. The front drape shifts into floral vines, pastel-toned and tender, a reminder that even royalty has gentleness woven into it.

And then, the pallu, a two-panel expanse of silver symmetry. It is rare even in Banaras today, a form once seen in ceremonial silks commissioned for princely brides. The weaver of Raahiya chose to revive that form, not for grandeur alone, but to prove that patience can still create poetry.

Along her edges runs a hand-finished hankadwa border, the mark of precision and pride.

Raahiya is more than a saree. She is a salute to a craft that refuses to rush, to a weaver who still believes that beauty is built in silence, and to a tradition that continues to write itself in silver threads.