Pillar Box Red and Ivory Handwoven Pure Silk Kanjipuram Saree with Korvai Thazampoo Reku Border pure cotton blouses A village in the outskirts

A village in the outskirts of Varanasi or Benares

woven for a ceremony worth marking

For a Karthigai puja

Handwoven by artisan weaver families in Kanchipuram

Pillar Box Red and Ivory Handwoven Pure Silk Kanjipuram Saree with Korvai Thazampoo Reku Border pure cotton blouses A village in the outskirtsThere is a Kanchipuram that needs no zari to make its presence felt and this pillar box red and ivory Kanjipuram is exactly that. The body is a plain, undecorated pillar box red pure mulberry silk, and in the Korvai construction where body and border woven separately and structurally interlocked on the loom, the red body arrives at its ivory border not by transition but by architecture. The pillar box red body is pure silk in its most self sufficient