My Saree Today – Bindu’s Blue
I wore the beautiful blue Kanchi silk saree today. This is woven by Gopinath’s team and I call it Bindu’s blue ! It’s butter soft and a pleasure to wear.
Weaving
The Begumpuri Collection
I fell in love with the Begumpuri Saree in 2016… the love affair continues and I keep adding to my tiny collection of these beautiful handloom cotton sarees.
The first “Utkal Lakshmi” saree
For Krishnan’s birthday, he bought a gadget for himself but I wore a new saree :), each of us gifting ourselves what we love. This saree was bought from my favourite online store – Kalpavastram. Lakshmi had posted these sarees a couple of times earlier and I missed buying them every time. This time too, … Read more
My first “Ilkal”
The following post about the Ilkal saris by Mr. Venkatesh Narasimhan on the W3 group on April 12th, got me interested in Ilkal saris. Then Devika reached out as she supports a cluster of Ilkal weavers to preserve the technique and I finally managed to buy an Ilkal :). Wore this sari today and coincidentally … Read more