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...

Two blues, and the space between them is the whole story.The body is a clear sky blue — light, open, easy to wear through a long day. It stays plain...

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...

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...