{"id":8241,"date":"2022-11-17T04:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T22:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8241"},"modified":"2025-03-29T01:51:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:21:45","slug":"patan-patola-scarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/patan-patola-scarf\/","title":{"rendered":"Patan Patola scarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Patan Patola scarf:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The ancient art of\u00a0<strong>double ikat or Patola woven in pure silk<\/strong>\u00a0dates back to the 11th century. The Patola fabrics bear an\u00a0<strong>equal intensity of colours and design on both sides.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This peculiar quality has its origins in an intricate and difficult technique of dyeing or knot dyeing, known as \u2018<strong>bandhani\u2019<\/strong>, on the warp and weft separately before weaving.<\/li>\n<li>One of the major practitioners of the dwindling art form is the\u00a0<strong>Salvi family from North Gujarat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The weaving process:\u00a0<\/strong>Patola is woven on primitive hand-operated harness looms made out of rosewood and bamboo strips. The loom lies on a slant. The other commonly worn Patola is the Rajkot Patola, woven on a flat loom.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Price:\u00a0<\/strong>The base price of a Patola saree in the Patan weave starts from Rs 1.5 lakh up and can go up to Rs 6 lakh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/modi-gifts-italian-pm-a-patan-patola-scarf-what-the-ancient-gujarat-art-form-is-8272441\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ancient art of double ikat or Patola woven in pure silk dates back to the 11th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}