One of the pieces in the textile collection at Museum Of Fine Arts in Boston is a Jamdani saree, gifted by art collector and historian Denman Waldo Ross back in 1927. Created between the 18th and 19th centuries, it features a red-and-gold border of diamond patterns with a central dot (symbolic to peacock’s eye) and temple motifs. This pattern is said to be one of the oldest designs of the Jamdani, which originated in Dhaka, Bangladesh. "It takes four weavers to work on a single saree," says Hyderabad-based crafts revivalist Ghanshyam Sarode,...
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