Jamdani

Jamdani is a form of loom embroidery with intricate, opaque motifs woven over a fine muslin base. Muslin is hand woven from very fine, high-count yarns with a very soft and tender touch. The process involves skillfully fashioning and interlacing geometric motifs on the weave of the muslin fabric without any loom attachments. 

Singular in their exquisiteness and beauty, Jamdani fabrics are acutely labor and time-intensive. A craftsman may take months to weave a small quantity of the refined cloth. Traditionally, Jamdani was woven for the royal court and aristocracy in India and for this very reason the culture of stringent attention to detail and meticulous finesse in its making has persisted.

Revered by aesthetes and lovers of handicrafts, the rare art of Jamdani has been declared by UNESCO as one of humanity’s most significant achievements in cultural heritage.

At Buna, we have contemporized the art of Jamdani by creating our own motifs and consequently textiles. Our aim is to keep things minimal and subtly luxurious.