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Also displayed is a Bandi jacket hand woven in Tussar silk. There are four types of silk that exist- Mulberry, Tussar, Muga and Eri. Among these except  for Mulberry, the other three are wild silk varieties indigenous to India. Yali has created this Bandi jacket to commemorate the role of this silhouette in shaping the national identity, popularly also as the Nehru jacket and today the Modi jacket. A highlight of how textiles and silhouettes become means of identification. The perfect interplay of khudrang (pure shades) of tussar adds to the diversity of materiality.