Pillar Box Red and Ivory Handwoven Pure Silk Kanjipuram Saree with Korvai Thazampoo Reku Border pure cotton blouses Handwoven by artisan weaver families

Handwoven by artisan weaver families in Kanchipuram

The self-colour border carries multiple bands of gold zari in a Varisaipet-style multi-line structure

❖ Border: Jasmine ivory tissue with gold zari korvai work and peacock motifs

A village in the outskirts of Varanasi or Benares

with a more structured drape than a silk-cotton blend

Pillar Box Red and Ivory Handwoven Pure Silk Kanjipuram Saree with Korvai Thazampoo Reku Border pure cotton blouses Handwoven by artisan weaver familiesThere 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