Traditional Indian buying angrakha Long dress with jacket in kalamkari print and inner dress in block print.Festiv al, Diwali-Navratri dress

Stunning yet simple dress with 2 separate layers which can be worn individually or combined together for a royal look.
• Exclusive pure cotton long sleeveless gown with kalidar /panelled flare long Kurta 12panels /kali
• detailed heritage Mughal block print with work on yoke & heavy gota work at hem
paired with
• Exquisite *kalamkari print
angrakha pattern long shrug/jacket (16 panels flare)
detailed with golden and green hand painted print all over & gota detailing

•Ready measurements of dress in inches

M / Uk size10
Chest-39
Waist-36

L/Uk 12
Chest-42
Waist-39

XL/UK 14
Chest- 44
Waist-42

Dress length-53.5
Shrug/ jacket length-46

✍️ *Kalamkari
Kalamkari is an ancient style of hand painting done on cotton or silk fabric with a tamarind pen, using natural dyes. The word Kalamkari is derived from a Persian word where ‘kalam‘ means pen and ‘kari‘ refers to craftsmanship. This art buying involves 23 tedious steps of dyeing, bleaching, hand painting, block printing, starching, cleaning and more. Motifs drawn in Kalamkari spans from flowers, peacock, paisleys to divine characters of Hindu epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana

✍️Colors of *Kalamkari
Kalamkari art primarily use earthy colors like indigo, mustard, rust, black and green. Natural dyes used to paint colors in Kalamkari art is extracted for natural sources with no use of chemicals and artificial matter. For instance, craftsmen extract black color by blending jaggery, water and iron fillings which they essentially use for outlining the sketches. While mustard or yellow is derived by boiling pomegranate peels, red hues are created from bark of madder or algirin. Likewise, blue is obtained from indigo and green is derived by mixing yellow and blue together.

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