Natural dyed handspun Eri Silk Shawl with Muga Ghicha Kalidaar with Kanchipuram zari

kırmızı is laal! Red! 

An Ode to Red through Lac!

When the veils of darkness begin to radiate the shine of light, the red reveals. 

At sunrise and sunset, when the path of the sunlight through the atmosphere to the eye is longest, the blue and green components are removed almost completely, leaving the longer wavelength orange and red light. The remaining reddened sunlight can also be scattered by cloud droplets and other relatively large particles, which give the sky above the horizon its red glow.

The red!! The Red!

Own your red! Be your red! Show your red! Tame your red! Your red is your own!

kırmızı!

kırmızı is Muga ghicha Kalidaar with with Kanchipuram Zari. The lac-dyed eri shawl has traditional motifs of Assam woven into it with Muga ghicha. 

Eri Silk is a wild silk with a woolly fibrous filament hand spun into yarn, handwoven on traditional throw shuttle looms of Assam. These are woven on looms that are simplified older looms where the basic main frame is formed using four posts or pillars dug steadfastly into the mud ground. This Eri Silk is handspun by adept spinners of Assam without using Charkha. The journey from cocoons to handspun yarn involves a spinner performing a series of steps for the appropriate treatment of cocoons that can enable hand spinning of yarn. These steps have remained unchanged through generations of the hand-spinning culture of Assam. We have retained the indigenous steps without much alteration.

Muga silk is a rare wild silk that derives its scientific name from Assam, the place of its origin, where this Muga silk was crafted. It is hand spun Muga ghicha that is woven on a Throw shuttle loom. 

{Red lac, also called red lake, crimson lake or carmine lake, was an important red pigment in Renaissance and Baroque art.
Unlike vermilion or red ochre, made from minerals, red lake pigments are made by mixing organic dyes, made from insects or plants, with white chalk or alum. Red lac was made from the gum lac, the dark red resinous substance secreted by various scale insects, particularly the Laccifer lacca from India. Other red lakes were made from the rose madder plant and the brazilwood tree.}


kırmızı is a one-of-a-kind textile designed to highlight a unique coming together of various techniques and creativity of handcraft. This design will not be recreated. kırmızı comes with a blouse fabric designed to encourage Mora fireflies to bring their authentic spirit to the fabrication of blouse fit, usage of borders and edgings. The blouse worn by me is not included.

Param did the beadwork 

Gurmail, the tailor

Narmohan Dada, the master wild silk pioneer

Mumma, Madhu, technical supervision of stitching 

Midtoan.com, the photographer

Designed by Ritika