Temple Visit in a Silk-Cotton
We visited the nearby Siddhi Ganesh Mandir in the morning today. Its our first temple visit since Jan 2020 !!
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Cotton Beauties
Happy to share pics and details about three Cotton Beauties that I own. Am a saree addict and #ILoveHandloom. So a happy blog 😀
The Anniversary Saree
Read about my beautiful Kanchi “plus” silk saree that I wore for our anniversary this year. Its a stunning coffee coloured silk saree.
Jaathi Malli and Rudraksham
We celebrated Pongal/Sankranti by witnessing the Lakshadeepam festival at Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple. The Lakshadeepam festival starts in the evening. So we all took bath again in the evening and I started the year with a beautiful Mango yellow Cooptex silk saree. When Mr. Venkatesh Narasimhan had come to Delhi on Oct 22nd 2019, for a … Read more
The first Coimbatore Silk
Sept 21, 2019 – My closest friend Sirisha and dearest cousin Koka’s birthday ! I continued my tradition of wearing a new saree on the most important day in each month all through this year and September was even more special because there are two important days in this month. The first being Sept 7th, … Read more
The Anniversary Saree
When Venkatesh Narasimhan, the MD of Cooptex posted a set of Arani silk sarees on the FB page in early July, I stored the picture of one of those sarees … it was a pale pista green saree with red or maroon “tree of life” motifs all over. It was a very different design and … Read more
Brown & Black Silk Cotton Saree
I got introduced to the world of Silk Cottons because of a gift that Vidya’s mom gave me almost 8 years back. I didn’t even start using the saree till a year went by and then when I wore it, I just fell in love with the silk-cotton fabric. Since then I have bought a … Read more
Three distinct weaves – 1000 buttas, A silk cotton and A Kota
We were in Dindigul and Chinnalampatti for our second meeting with the weavers’ children on July 10th and I decided to wear a sari that the Dindigul weavers had woven and Amma wore a sari that the Chinnalampatti weavers had woven. I wore this organic cotton that has a 1000 buttas. According to the experts … Read more
The Sungudi circles …
I have worn just one Madurai Sungudi before this and at that time I didn’t know how it was made … those tiny circles. How did they come about ? Was it tie and dye or some other process ? Then the W3 group posted a whole bunch of information about the process of getting these … Read more