This is a handwoven orange Banarasi silk odhani featuring Kantha work on it. The odhani features hand embroidered paisley work done by artisans of Bengal. The odhani is embellished with sequins. Kantha is the traditional running stitch which originated from the way in which Bengali housewives mended old clothes by taking out a strand of thread from the colorful border of their sarees and making simple designs with them. The origin of Kantha traces its history to a period not less than a thousand years and is still practiced today by millions women in rural India.