Resham means silk thread. In embroidery, it is the material that gives colour its truest reading — silk thread catches light differently than cotton, differently than synthetic, and the difference is visible. A memoir made in resham is a memoir that shines. The Resham Memoir Jacket is exactly that: a record of craft, worked in the materials that made the tradition.
The base is corduroy — a ridged, textured surface that holds embroidery differently than flat fabric, the ridges creating a subtle landscape beneath the needle. A hand-embroidered border runs the jacket's perimeter, worked in traditional motifs in dabka — metal wire embroidery — alongside tilla (gold thread), silk, and cotton thread, and pearls. The combination produces a border that reads as opulent without being decorative for its own sake: every material earns its place.
Corduroy is a working fabric — structured, resilient, associated with labour and academia equally. Embroidering its surface with pearl and tilla is the kind of thing that changes the object's entire register: it is still a corduroy jacket, but it is something else as well. That productive tension is where RASTAH operates.
A memoir is written after the fact, looking back at what happened with the clarity distance provides. The embroidery on this jacket carries the same quality — techniques that have been practised for generations, set down in their full complexity, preserved in the fibres of a garment that moves through the present.
Key Features
- Corduroy jacket construction
- Hand-embroidered perimeter border in traditional motifs
- Embroidery worked in dabka, tilla, silk thread, cotton thread, and pearls
- Structured jacket silhouette
- Full button-front closure
Care Instructions
Dry clean only
