[Vol. 04] The festive loom · 2026
Every saree is a story told one thread at a time.
Handloom silks and cottons bought direct from master weavers in Kanchipuram, Varanasi, Chanderi and Pochampally. Every saree carries a woven tag with the weaver’s name.
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The festive lookbook.
Six sarees, hung the way they are in the weaver’s front room. Scroll sideways through the edit.
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Pick a weave.
Four weaving traditions, four ways of crossing a thread. Choose one and the loom re-threads itself.
Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu
Kanjeevaram
Heavy mulberry silk, with the border and body woven separately and interlocked by hand with three shuttles. Temple-tower teeth run along the border.
- Technique
- Interlocked border, three-shuttle
- On the loom
- 15–25 days
- From
- ₹38,500
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The collection.
One of each, mostly. Prices include GST, a blouse piece and insured shipping above ₹25,000.
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Meet Selvi.
Selvi Murugan weaves in Pillaiyarpalayam, Kanchipuram, on a pit loom her grandfather built. She sets the warp herself, a job most weavers hand to their sons. One Kanjeevaram takes her and her nephew about three weeks.
We pay weavers like Selvi in full when they start a saree, not when it sells. Her name is woven into the tag at the end of the drape.
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years at the loom
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days per saree
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warp threads, set by hand
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generations of weavers
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Drape one before you buy.
Book a video call and we will drape any saree on camera, in daylight, with the border and drape end up close.
Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu 631501
- Studio
- Tue – Sun, 11 AM – 7 PM
- Video drape calls
- Daily, 10 AM – 8 PM
- Shipping
- Insured, pan-India, 3–6 days