Craft · Bada Bazaar

Leheriya

लहरिया

Diagonal waves, made by rolling the cloth up and binding it before dyeing

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Made or sold primarily for buyers. The form is traditional; the production usually is not.

Not dots but stripes running on the diagonal, produced by rolling the length of cloth into a rope, binding it at intervals and dyeing — then unrolling, re-rolling on the other bias and dyeing again for the lattice version. Turban and odhni cloth, strongly seasonal: it belongs to the monsoon and to Teej.

When: Mon–Sat 10:30–20:30
Allow: 30 min
Cost: ₹₹
Themes: Textile, Dye, Monsoon
Placement: This is a neighbourhood, not a door — the practice has no single address.

Part of the same thread

Bandhani

Tens of thousands of knots tied by fingernail before the cloth ever sees dye

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Desk-researched only · last reviewed 2026-08-27

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