Kushuthara is the most demanding way to weave a kira, the Bhutanese woman's floor-length wrapped dress. On a backstrap loom in Khoma, three narrow strips are woven separately and stitched into one cloth. Every motif is picked by hand, thread by thread, in discontinuous supplementary weft — a single kira can take years.

The design system keeps that logic. A pale silk ground carries the page and is never covered over. Colour arrives in bands, framed by dark stripe borders. Structure comes from seams and selvedges rather than shadow, and motif rows shift as they climb instead of tiling.