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That row of little stepped triangles along your saree's border is a temple — literally. The temple border, or kovil border, is a woven...

Chinon is the chiffon that behaves. That's the most useful one-line description of it. Chinon — you'll also see it written chinnon or chinon...

Crushed, glass, tissue, shimmer, pure, silk — they are all organza, and the differences are real. If you have been searching "silk organza saree"...

There are only three ways to pair a saree with a blouse — contrast, tonal, or metallic — and once you know them, you...

A plain saree is not an empty saree. It is a decision to put the drama somewhere else. The plain saree — a solid,...

An ajrakh saree is printed up to sixteen times before it is finished — and on both sides of the cloth, in perfect register....

Jamdani is called "woven air," and the name is not poetry — it is a description. It is a fine, sheer cotton muslin with...

A saree's price is not a measure of how good it is. It is a measure of what it's made of. Once you understand...