Pure Handspun Charkha Cotton Kurta Pajama
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Here in the Exotic India Art Textiles gallery, you will get India’s finest hand-woven products which are carved by an Indian artist. You will get the finest handpicked products with lots of variations. You will get products related to Indian hand-woven Sari, Salwar Kameez, Skirts, Jackets, Lehenga Choli, Kurta Pajama, Shawls & Scarves, Men’s Dhoti, Women’s Top, and many other textiles products like Footwear, Mats, Wall Hangings, Bags, Jholas, Face Masks, and much more.
This set of kurta and pajama, tailored out of pure
hand-spun and hand-woven lengths popularly known as khadi, is now Indian
people’s most loved wear popular alike among multi-national corporate and
renowned celebrities to a village poor and a tribal in a remote jungle hutment.
The genuineness of the product is certified by Indian Khadi and Village
Industry Board. Though not officially proclaimed or a rank attributed under an
Act of any constitutional body kurta pajama is now India’s national costume.
During India's freedom movement kurta-pajama, sometimes alternated with
kurta-dhoti, was the symbol of national unity and people's adherence to
swadeshi – nation's own. Though now kurta-pajama is more akin to Indian soil
than any other costume fashion this costume style, or any fashions of sewn
garments, are not Indian innovations. Some of the sewn costume styles were in
use at least since the Mauryan era; these were unstitched lengths – uttariya
and untariya that dominated the wardrobes of princes and elite. Sewn costumes
were considered inferior styles for subordinate people.
Handspun Charkha Cotton Kurta Pajama |
However, with inroads of invading tribes, this
position reversed. They not only grabbed India’s political authority but also
her lifestyle, costumes in particular. The invading Kushanas and other early tribes
showed their preference for sewn garments. Though the Turkish rulers in India
had a far larger range of sewn costumes, these were subsequent Islamic invaders
to include Mughals, and later the British, who completely changed the flavor of
Indian costuming. Among other fashions, Turkish invaders of Central Asia
developed a kurta type wear appropriate for the climate of the land. Besides
capturing Mandu, the major ruling seat of Turkish Sultans, Akbar’s eye also
discerned some of Sultanate’s costume fashions, a chak-dar jama being more
important, and developed them into live fashions those days. The later days’
kurta was developed out of this Mughal Jama.
The Cotton Kurta Pajama emerged as the national dress of freedom fighters and
thereafter of the political class. When Mahatma Gandhi gave a call for giving
up all foreign goods and to spin and weave textile for one’s consumption, most
families – rich or poor, had a pious routine of daily spinning as much yarn as
manufactured textile of his or her need. This coarse textile was khadi, and
however rough and uncomfortable even the richest of the land prided in putting
it on. Khadi emerged not only as Indian people’s struggle for freedom but also
as her self-reliance and freedom from exploitation of foreign market. Later, in
free India, the habit of self-spinning did not sustain but khadi is nowadays
the choicest wear of millions and some of the fashion houses, such as Fab
India, have developed most of its styles using khadi as its base material. This
kurta has khadi’s characteristic form – apparently rough and coarse-looking but
soft in feel. It is endowed with the most natural color shade, design pattern,
and overall look. Not only as a garment has this pair of had wears abounded in
khadi’s vision and the great idea and tradition that it represents.
This description by Prof. P.C. Jain and Dr.
Daljeet. Prof. Jain specializes in the aesthetics of ancient India. Dr. Daljeet
is the chief curator of the Visual Arts Gallery at the National Museum of
India, New Delhi. They have both collaborated on numerous books on Indian art
and culture.
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