Brocade is a heavy textured rich fabric in which many colors of silk and metallic yarns of gold and silver is used to give a luxurious look and feel; it is a specialty of Varanasi. Practitioners of this craft are also found in Mubarakpur town in Azamgarh District. Weaving a brocade sari is a laborious process and requires great skill. The oral tradition of learning is the process followed in the training of weavers and years of apprenticeship follow with only the best permitted to weave a brocade sari.
This sari has been woven in a extra weft technique called Karuwa, with metallic yarns of silver and gold interspersed with silk, also thus known as Ganga-Jamuna since it combines two opposites.
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