All Sarees

This is the pink-and-purple that South-Indian weavers have never stopped making, because it never stops working.The body is rani pink silk with round gold coin buti set in neat rows...

Black is the colour people reach for when they want to be sure. Here it is woven in clean silk, plain across the body until it nears the border, where...

Some greens are quiet. This one is not.The body is a deep peacock teal, held in soft silk, with small gold buti scattered across it in even rows. It is...

Elephants, deer and lions, walking in columns down the body in silver and gold. This is the old Kanchipuram vocabulary — animals in procession, the way they appear on temple...

Three colours, and each one earns its place. The body is red, filled with gold peacock roundels — birds in profile, tails fanned, set inside circles that repeat across the...