We also got a glimpse of her outfits in the recently released song Ek Dil Ek Jaan. They decided to give the Ghoomar ghaghra a multi-layered look and colour-blocked the layers in deep rich jewel tones. It took 2 months to create this look, as the designer had to do an intensive research on how the royal costumes during 13th century were by studying various traveller’s accounts, manuscripts and historical texts on the pre-Mughal period. The brocades that were used in the ensemble were specially commissioned to master weavers after a careful study of old samples from Aurangabad and Benaras that have been archived at the Calico and Jaipur museums.” The innermost layer of the ghaghra has a special gotta lafa that we got artisans from Nyla near Jaipur to weave using the age old traditional techniques. The symbolic Tree of life has connotations of divinity as well as man’s connection to the cosmos, the lion stands for a warriors strength and resolve, the lotus is a symbol of eternal beauty while the cosmic symbols denote the traditional sun and moon worship that is still practiced by the Rajput clans. “The motifs that have been used – the lady with a parrot, the tree of life, the sun and the moon, the lion and the lotus have a deep historical symbolism that is entrenched in the ethos of the Rajput culture. In another post, they mentioned about the main motifs of the ghagra and how they were derived from old Pichwai textiles, various mural and frescoes, rendered in delicate hand crafted kasab embroidery, kachhi pati work and the traditional Rajasthani Mukke Ka Kaam. The leheriya print on Kota cotton thus developed was further layered with Varq ka Kaam and embellished with Raato embroidery (couching of gold metal flat wire with a red silk floss thread). They got a leheriya print developed that came from a 16th century textile sample which they came across at the Victoria and Albert museum.

According to a Instagram post by the designer duo, the odhna had Kota cotton specially hand woven by master artisans.

Making ghagra song