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...

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...

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...

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...

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...