Understanding Indian Sarees: A Buyer’s Guide
A buyer’s guide to Indian sarees: the major regional weaves, choosing by occasion, what the GI, Silk and Handloom marks certify, and spotting powerloom.
Read it →The Journal
What we know about handloom, written down. The weaves, the clusters they come from, the marks that certify them, and how to keep a saree alive once it is yours.
How to Care for a Handwoven Saree
How to wash, dry, fold and store a handwoven silk or cotton saree so the zari never blackens and the folds never set permanently.
Read it →Where Your Saree Comes From
The nine weaving clusters we buy from — Kanchipuram, Varanasi, Patan, Phulia and five more — what each one weaves, and why the place matters to the cloth.
Read it →Looking for the story behind the house rather than the cloth? That is on About Us.