Red narikunjar pattern patan patola saree

Red narikunjar pattern double ikat patan patola saree. this is a most traditional desgin. narikunjar design (nari means dancing girl , doll and kunjar means elephant) dancing girl and elephant, in which both the figures were highly stylized. the patola weavers had in mind the popular iconography of sixteenth century, which used series of women's figures comosed into elephant .in the patola the elephant motif was side by side with the dancing female. elephant are associated with fertility and cosmic water.