Last updated: October 2026 · Method: compiled from public listings and traveller reports; treat figures as planning aids, not quotations.
This page details the tying units behind the workshop visits.
The detail
- The tying: the knot patterns the naming guide decodes.
- The dye baths run in a colour sequence that parallels miniature-painting pigments.
- The buy: cloth-lane prices come with the workshop story attached.
The bandhani workshops around Sadar market work in an order that has not changed with demand, and the reports describe the sequence the same way: mark, tie, dye, unpick. The tying is the skilled bottleneck, done largely by hand and largely by women working piece-rate from home between the workshop and the market stalls, and the dye lots decide the colour depth that photographs never quite carry. Visitors who buy in the market do better, on the reported evidence, after seeing the process first, because the price of a dupatta reads differently once the number of individual knots behind it is understood, and the shopping guide’s price anchors make sense only against that labour.