All Sarees

Rani pink and bottle green — the contrast South-Indian weavers keep coming back to, because it simply works.The body is deep rani pink silk, smooth and light-catching, with small gold...

This is the green of old temple doors and neem leaves — deep, bottle-dark, sure of itself.The body carries it in soft silk, patterned all over with small silver buti...

Magenta is a colour that does not wait to be noticed. The body is woven in it — a warm, saturated magenta silk carrying gold mango buti in rows, the...

Violet is the colour most women skip past and then think about later. This one is silk cotton — the weave that drapes like silk and wears like cotton, which...

Rose pink, and then a red border that refuses to sit quietly beside it. The body is smooth pink silk with a row of gold leaf motifs standing along the...

Sea green and purple is a combination the Kanchipuram weavers have trusted for generations, and once you see it on the shoulder you understand why. Neither colour concedes. The body...

The trees are the whole point. A row of them walks along the lower body of this saree in gold zari — full-crowned, symmetrical, the kind of motif that has...

There is a particular pink that does not ask permission. This one arrives in raw tussar silk, and it holds the light the way only tussar does — a little...