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Assam Muga Silk & Gamosa — Cover

About Assam Muga Silk & Gamosa

Muga is the undyeable "golden silk" of Assam — a naturally amber-tan fibre with a high glossy sheen, praised in the Arthashastra as being "of the colour of butter." Woven on Sualkuchi handlooms into ceremonial cloth and the red-bordered gamosa, it pairs a lustrous saturated gold ground with crimson lac-dyed kingkhap end-bands.

This design system distills that warm, opulent Bihu textile into digital form — a saturated golden silk ground, crimson woven borders, and floral kingkhap motif strips, gold throughout rather than pale.

Learn more about the Assam Muga Silk & Gamosa style

Origin
Assam, Brahmaputra valley, northeast India
Era
1950–1990 (living handloom tradition; modern Sualkuchi revival ~2010s)
Key figures
Sualkuchi weaving communities · Assamese handloom weaver guilds
Movements
Assamese sericulture/handloom · Bihu cultural textile tradition · Kingkhap floral weaving

Assam Muga Silk & Gamosa design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

MarcellusHeadings
EB GaramondBody
Cormorant GaramondMono
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