KHANA TEXTILES: FROM BODICE CLOTH TO SARIS

Geeta Patil, a textile designer from Ahmedabad, India, grew up in Gulbarga, located in the northern region of the state of Karnataka. She founded Kubsa to revive and revitalise khana, a traditional weave of northern Karnataka.


Image: on loom laxmi saree

Please could you tell us about khana
Geeta Patil: Khana is a hand-woven textile traditionally used for stitching a bodice to be worn with an Ilkal sari. Traditionally khana fabrics are woven in dimensions of 30 inches in width and 20 inches in length that makes them adequate for a bodice. Khana typically has three warps - a ground warp for the field/body, ground warp for the borders on either side of the field; and an extra warp of silk yarn for the motifs of the field........................

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