Michelle's takeaway from India: 100 silk saris
January 25, 2015  13:19
PM Narendra Modi is likely to gift over a 100 Banarasi sarees and Banarasi silk dress materials to United State's first lady Michelle Obama.

Michelle has been earlier spotted wearing Jacquard silk dresses by international designers Tracy Resse, Naeem Khan and Alexander McQueen and jacquard silk, just happens to be a speciality of the weavers of Banaras.

Banarasi silk sarees and dress materials with antique designs has been specially chosen for Mrs Obama and has been sent off to New Delhi.The responsibility of selecting and packaging the gift has been given to a body of silk traders of Varanasi - the Varanasi Vastra Udyog Sangh. 
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