Nazara Button Down
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The Handwork
Nazara 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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Hand Block-Printed
Block printing is one of the oldest ways of putting pattern on cloth in South Asia. A drawing is transferred to a block of seasoned wood and carved by hand, so the pattern stands proud of the surface. Charged with dye and pressed down, the block leaves one repeat. Set side by side, impression after impression, the repeats become the cloth. Every piece is printed with natural dyes, and every block is carved by hand, so no two blocks are the same.
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Hand-Embroidered Details
Kadhai is embroidery worked by hand. A design is traced onto the cloth as a khaka, the cloth is stretched taut on an adda or a hoop, and a karigar works it stitch by stitch in silk, cotton and metallic zari. The needle is guided by eye and by hand, so no two pieces carry quite the same line.
Nazara means spectacle — a sight, a view, a visual experience significant enough to stop you. The Nazara Button Down is designed to be exactly that: a blue khaddar shirt that announces itself through the visual density of its craft work, that rewards being seen from any angle.
The base is blue khaddar, hand-woven and textured. At the front and back, a block-printed peacock patch in hand-woven khaddar creates the shirt's centrepiece — the peacock, with its association with beauty, pride, and the subcontinent's most recognisable bird, rendered in block print and then applied to the shirt in a form that has its own material presence. A hand-embroidered RASTAH logo on khaddar anchors the chest, worked in thread against the printed ground. Fashion stitching runs across the body, adding construction detail that connects the patches to the shirt surface.
The peacock has been printed, painted, carved, and embroidered across South Asian art for centuries. It appears in Mughal miniatures, on tiles, in jewellery, in architecture. Placing it on khaddar — the material associated with independence and hand-work rather than ceremony — is a deliberate repositioning: the motif moved from court to street, from precious object to daily wear.
A nazara is worth stopping for. This shirt is the kind of thing you see from across the room and want to look at more closely. That is the only standard that matters.
- Fabric
- Blue khaddar
- Care
- Dry clean only
Features
- Block-printed peacock patch in hand-woven khaddar at front and back
- Hand-embroidered RASTAH logo on khaddar at chest
- Fashion stitching across body
- Button-front closure
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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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