''Muqayyash'' (Muqqaish, Mukkaiish, Mukaish, Mukesh, मुक़य्यश, "مقیش" ) is an ancient craft of brocade embroidery work with silver yarn on

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cloth from

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, India. The silk is ornamented with a silver stripe pattern. Muqayyash is one of the

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silk cloth, and it is recorded in

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. The muqayyash was one of the fine brocades of Gujrat among a tus, daraibaf, kurtahwar. It was one of the expensive cloths of that time, priced at 2-50 gold Muhr.

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Muqayyash is an

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word driven from the

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word Kesh, which means

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. Muqayyash is also known as ''badla'' and ''fardi'' work. The ''Mukaish'' work with smaller stitch was called ''Murri ka kaam, taka, dana.''

Use

Muqayyash is in use since the Mughal empire, and

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was using these silver embellished cloths.

Present fashion

The silk with Muqayyash work is famous for bridal and festival wear and ladies Sari. Muqayyash's work is still in fashion with celebrities in Bollywood. It is one of the choices of Indian fashion designers like

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, Anjul Bhandari, etc.

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wore mukaish worked ivory sari while receiving the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award at the 2019 UNICEF Snowflake Ball on December 3. The sari was designed by Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla.

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