Bunto Kazmi's Designs

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Re: Bunto Kazmi’s Designs

@shukria

Either way, imported “French Net” (which I am very skeptical of in the sense that it is highly unlikely it actually indeed comes directly from France instead of merely called so for the sake of inflating prices like so many other fabric varieties FALSELY sold as such in Pakistan ranging from “French Lace” all the way to “French Chiffon”) or local Cotton Net, I tend to think the fabric is too corse up close. But I suspect that it must be necessary for the Kaamdani work… and I suppose you can’t really tell from far away.

Hmm… the interesting thing is that this cotton-based net has virtually died out in India and replaced with the synthetic kind which everyone from big designers from Manish Malhotra use to the local retail shop level.

So why aren’t big Pakistani designers like Bunto using Synthetic Polyester-based Net???

… perhaps because gasp its DIRT cheap and it would reduce profit margins???

As for **Synthetic Polyester-based Net, **the fabrc isn’t worth it. It’s the cheap net on which Indian sarees are being made thesedays and being sold abundantly at Rabi / Aashiyana.

Cotton net, the Pakistani one, is by far my MOST LOVED fabric. I got it at 1,100 rupees per yard from Hilal Silk, Zamzama, The beauty of this fabtic is that it sustains the heaviest of kaams including dabka, kaamdani and zardozzi. Not to forget the fact that it prevents kaam from getting tangled and ​uljahna.

and yes I share your skepticism about imported fabric.

The locally available fabric of cotton net, comes in so many designs, With gold *bootis, zari bootis etc. *It is actually beautiful and paaidaar.