A fabric that appears to change colour as you move — this Multicolour Banarasi Silk Rangkat Fabric is one of Varanasi's most technically extraordinary and visually captivating weaving achievements. Rangkat silk in multiple colours is a fabric of near-magical optical quality, available here as dress fabric for the customer who wants to create something entirely their own from one of Banarasi weaving's most distinctive traditions.

Rangkat — also known as Rang Kata, meaning 'cut colour' — is a specialised Banarasi weaving technique in which two or more differently coloured warp threads are used simultaneously across the fabric, creating an iridescent or shot-silk effect where the dominant colour shifts as the viewing angle and lighting conditions change. The fabric's surface appears to contain multiple colours at once — the warp and weft colours interacting differently at different angles to create a colour complexity that is impossible to achieve by dyeing alone. In multicolour Rangkat, this already extraordinary optical quality is multiplied: several warp colours interact across the fabric surface to create a textile of continuous, living colour variation that makes every length unique.

As a dress fabric, Multicolour Banarasi Silk Rangkat offers exceptional creative possibility — suitable for blouses, dupattas, lehenga panels, or any garment where the extraordinary visual quality of Rangkat weaving can be displayed to full effect. A fabric investment that produces garments of rare beauty and genuine Banarasi heritage.

• Fabric: Banarasi Silk (Rangkat Weave)
• Artform: Handloom Banarasi Rangkat Weave
• Colour: Multicolour (colour-shifting)
• Sold by the metre / as specified
• Suitable for: Blouse, Dupatta, Lehenga panels, Occasion wear
• Country of Origin: India
• Woven by Varanasi's Rangkat specialists through Luxurion World

Dry clean recommended. Rangkat silk's colour-shifting quality is most vivid in natural or directional light.

A fabric that appears to change colour as you move — this Multicolour Banarasi Silk Rangkat Fabric is one of Varanasi's most technically extraordinary and visually captivating weaving achievements. Rangkat silk in multiple colours is a fabric of near-magical optical quality, available here as dress fabric for the customer who wants to create something entirely their own from one of Banarasi weaving's most distinctive traditions.

Rangkat — also known as Rang Kata, meaning 'cut colour' — is a specialised Banarasi weaving technique in which two or more differently coloured warp threads are used simultaneously across the fabric, creating an iridescent or shot-silk effect where the dominant colour shifts as the viewing angle and lighting conditions change. The fabric's surface appears to contain multiple colours at once — the warp and weft colours interacting differently at different angles to create a colour complexity that is impossible to achieve by dyeing alone. In multicolour Rangkat, this already extraordinary optical quality is multiplied: several warp colours interact across the fabric surface to create a textile of continuous, living colour variation that makes every length unique.

As a dress fabric, Multicolour Banarasi Silk Rangkat offers exceptional creative possibility — suitable for blouses, dupattas, lehenga panels, or any garment where the extraordinary visual quality of Rangkat weaving can be displayed to full effect. A fabric investment that produces garments of rare beauty and genuine Banarasi heritage.

• Fabric: Banarasi Silk (Rangkat Weave)
• Artform: Handloom Banarasi Rangkat Weave
• Colour: Multicolour (colour-shifting)
• Sold by the metre / as specified
• Suitable for: Blouse, Dupatta, Lehenga panels, Occasion wear
• Country of Origin: India
• Woven by Varanasi's Rangkat specialists through Luxurion World

Dry clean recommended. Rangkat silk's colour-shifting quality is most vivid in natural or directional light.