Jamdani saree is very popular with Bangladeshi women that has a unique story. Dhakai Jamdani saree is made designing on muslin. Although there are lots of textile factories in Bangladesh who trying to process jamdani saree but only local craftsmen are able to provide authentic jamdani saree.
There are lots of views on naming in Jamdani. There is two Persian combined word into jamdani. Persian word jam means cloth and dana means buti. We can say that Jamdani means embroidered cloth. In the beginning, muslin was one color and the embroidered cloth is called muslin. Muslin is found in the Dhaka district. Rupgang, Dhamrai and Senargaon in Dhaka is popular for muslin. In the Mughal period, jamdani reaches worldwide. Jahangir was the emperor and he protected Jamdani. Now the industry reaches 155 villages of Siddhirganj, Sonargaon, and Rupgong.
Why Dhakai jamdani Saree is best?
Bangladeshi jamdani saree is also known as Dhakai Jamdani Saree. Bangladeshi Jamdani saree is the best-wearing dress made of an amazing weaving technique and cotton combination. There are lots of use for jamdani saree like kurta, nakshirona, turban, curtain, handkerchief, etc but most of the time it is used for jamdani sarees. In the vogue 1800s sherwani designs with jamdani. The provincial clothing of Nepal and the Mughals used jamdani cloth. In muslin saree weaving they will use a minimum of 300 yarn count. Generally, they used 70-86 counts of yarn for waving Dhakai Jamdani Saree. UNESCO recognized a rare cultural heritage for the Jamdani weaving method.
Jamdani saree is one of the most time-consuming and most difficult saree in the world because it is hand waved by craftsmen. That’s the reason, this saree price higher than normal saree. However, for making a jamdani saree 2 craftsmen need to work 12 to 14 hours a day, After continue seven days to six months they can be able to make a full jamdani saree that depends on design. Normally depending on the fineness of work and yarn quality, the price range of jamdani saree is 5000 taka to 120,000 or more. It is a hand-woven saree and it is very perfect and delicate, and the design is too much smooth. Finding the front part and inner parts of this saree is very hard because no part of the yarn comes out.
Types of Jamdani Saree
There are lots of types of jamdani saree. For example, silk jamdani, half silk jamdani, and cotton jamdani all of the craftsmen knitted jamdani is authentic jamdani. This is suitable to wear for a couple of years. On the other hand, power loom jamdani is also available on the market and the price also will be low which will be polyester yarn made. It’s not original jamdani is also not comfortable wearing this saree. If you are wearing copy Jamdani saree you need to face various skin problems. The expected design is limited in machine saree so you have to use limited imitation. The other side of this saree is cut in the threads. Secondly, you can also recognize this saree by checking its smoothness and yarn. Generally, cotton and silk yarn are used in this saree weaving.
Common types of jamdani saree
There are three common types of jamdani saree.
- Half silk jamdani- In this jamdani, vertical yarns are made of cotton, and horizontal yarns are made of silk.
- Follow cotton jamdani- This is made with jamdani yarn.
- Flower silk jamdani- This is made of silk.
Feature Of Jamdani
Accordingly the geometric design is the main feature of Jamdani. Lots of designs include geometric designs herbs, flowers, and Kalka boiled. There are lots of designs available in Jamdani design. For example Pansi, Tercha, Panna Hazar, Mayurpankhi, Karla, Batpata, Jal, Kalkapar, Katihar, Duria, Dubli, Jalpar, Butidar, etc. On the other hand, oblique jamdani is called when the design of herbs or six flowers is aligned obliquely. The weaving of vines and flowers in all ground is called net design.
Our Motive
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