টছৰ · Airy, textured, quietly lustrous
Tussar is the wild one — reared in open forest rather than on a farm, with a slubbed texture and a warm honey cast that no cultivated silk quite reproduces.
Tussar comes from Antheraea moths living on arjun and asan trees. Because the cocoons are gathered from open forest, the fibre is coarser and less uniform than mulberry silk, and shot through with natural slubs.
Those irregularities are the point. Light catches unevenly across a Tussar weave, so the cloth reads as textured rather than glossy — closer to raw silk than to satin.
It is the lightest of the four to wear. An open weave and a dry hand make it the sensible choice for a Guwahati summer, where Muga would feel ceremonial and Eri too warm.
It also takes natural dyes beautifully. The honey base shifts a dye rather than accepting it flatly, which is why two Tussar drapes from the same dye lot are rarely quite identical — and why we do not treat that as a fault.
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