Kinari Button Down
The Handwork
Kinari Button Down
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Handwoven
Handloom cloth is made by hand from end to end. Yarn is wound onto the warp beam of a pit loom, the khaddi, and woven one pick at a time: the weaver opens the shed with the treadles, throws the shuttle across and beats each row into place with the reed. The slubs and small shifts in tension stay in the cloth. That is the point.
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Kinari means border — the edge, the trim, the detail that runs the perimeter. In South Asian textile tradition, the kinari is often where the most elaborate work lives: embroidered hems, woven borders, the finishing that tells you about everything that came before it. The Kinari Button Down is built around that principle, where the border is the story.
On a black half-sleeve khaddar base, the shirt runs a silk banarsi border down its length, a weave of extraordinary complexity typically found on ceremonial garments. A second border in pink lightweight fabric creates contrast alongside the banarsi. Mukesh hand work — a form of metallic thread embellishment — runs along the border, and khaddar patches continue the layered material language of the piece. A screen-printed RASTAH logo patch completes the chest.
Black khaddar is severe and grounded. Silk banarsi is the opposite: luminous, intricate, associated with wealth and occasion. Placing one against the other in the same garment creates a tension that is the shirt's entire argument — that utility and ceremony are not opposites, that a button-down can carry both registers simultaneously.
Borders define where one thing ends and another begins. The Kinari Button Down is comfortable living exactly at that edge.
- Fabric
- Black half-sleeve khaddar
- Care
- Dry clean only
Features
- Silk banarsi woven border
- Pink lightweight fabric contrast border
- Mukesh hand embellishment along border
- Khaddar patches
- Screen-printed RASTAH logo patch at chest
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The craft · Khaddi
کھڈیWoven pick by pick.
Cotton is warped onto a wooden khaddi and woven one throw of the shuttle at a time. The slubs and small shifts in the weave stay in the cloth. That's the point.
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