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Meghali Hazarika

Bio

A contributor to Storied Assam: photographs, stories, and wiki pages credited to them across the archive.

A two-piece muga silk mekhela-sador laid on a black ground, its natural golden cloth worked with rows of red sunflower-like medallions and broad red-and-gold patterned borders
Place

Sualkuchi

Weaving village on the north bank of the Brahmaputra. Continuous looms for centuries; today the engine of Assam's silk industry.

A rearer holds a tray of muga silkworms against the trunk of a host tree in an open Assam farm
Craft

Muga: the Golden Silk

Assam's golden muga silk, found almost nowhere else on earth, prized for a lustre that deepens with age.

An ivory-white Assamese mekhela sador draped on a stand, its white field scattered with small woven motifs in red, green and gold
Craft

Pat: the Bridal Silk

The white, glossy pat, the mulberry silk that completes Assam's three-silk triad with muga and eri, the cloth of weddings and ceremony.

Rolled bolts of eri silk fabric in cream, mustard, pink, teal, ochre and green stacked on a shelf
Craft

Eri: the Peace Silk

Assam's warm, matte eri, the non-violent 'ahimsa' silk spun without killing the moth, rooted in Bodo tradition.

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