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Handloom Pure Mulberry Silk Kanchipuram Saree in Ivory & Deep Maroon
₹29,900₹33,22210% OFF
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Silk Mark certified pure silk
“Handloom sarees are woven entirely by hand on traditional looms. The minor variations in weave are the artisan's signature — proof that no other saree in the world is exactly this one.”
Color: Ivory & Deep Maroon
Silk Type: Mulberry
Loom Type: Handloom
Purity: Silk mark certified
Blouse Piece: Included
Motifs/Patterns: Ivory, deep maroon, bottle green, gold. Four colours that have been sitting together on South Indian looms for hundreds of years, and they have never once looked wrong.
There is a reason this combination has outlived every trend that came at it. The ivory is not a cold white — it carries a soft, warm, buttery undertone that makes gold look richer against it, not harsher. The maroon is deep and saturated, the colour of temple silk and of every wedding trunk our mothers kept locked. The bottle green sits along the edge in a thin, quiet line and does the hardest job of all: it stops the red and the gold from shouting at each other. Take the green out and the saree loses its balance. It's the smallest colour on the saree and the most important.
The feel is pure Kanchipuram. Heavy mulberry silk with real body to it — this saree has weight in the hand, falls in deep, sculptural pleats, and holds its shape as you move. It doesn't cling and it doesn't float. It sits. That heaviness is not a flaw to apologise for; it's what separates a Kanchipuram from everything else in the cupboard.
This is the saree you don't second-guess. Some combinations you have to think about. This one you simply wear.
This is wedding silk in the truest sense — your own, your sister's, your daughter's. It carries the weight a wedding asks for and photographs beautifully under both daylight and mandap lighting.
Beyond weddings, it belongs at pujas and temple visits, at Durga Puja and the festival season around it, at formal receptions and family functions where you want to be the best-dressed person in the room without trying.
And as a Rakhi gift to a sister, it is about as meaningful as a gift gets. A Kanchipuram is not a present that gets worn once and forgotten — it gets worn, stored, and eventually handed down. You're not gifting a saree, you're starting one.
The body is ivory, and it is the reason this saree works.
It isn't a stark, cold white. It's a warm ivory with a golden tint running through it — a soft, buttery shade that already has gold sitting inside the colour before a single zari thread is added. That warmth is what allows the maroon border to look rich rather than harsh, and what makes the gold read as gold instead of yellow.
Across this ivory field, floral zari motifs are woven at even intervals from one end of the saree to the other, in the same silk-based gold zari used in the border. They aren't printed or embroidered — each butta is woven into the fabric as extra weft, which is why they sit flush with the surface and shine from within the cloth rather than on top of it.
Individually each motif is small. Together they change the whole character of the body. As you move, the buttas catch light in sequence and lay a fine golden shimmer over the ivory — enough to keep the body alive and luminous, never enough to compete with the pallu. This is the restraint that classical Kanchipuram is built on: the body whispers so the pallu can speak.
The pallu is where this saree stops being clothing and becomes a piece of work.
It is deep maroon, densely woven with heavy gold zari, packed edge to edge with pattern — repeating bands, temple lines, ornamental blocks. Very little of the maroon base is left visible. This is the section where the weaver spends the most time and the most zari, and you can feel the difference in weight when you lift it.
At the heart of it is the annapakshi — the mythical swan, the sacred bird of South Indian temple art. It appears twice in this saree: repeating in miniature along the border, and again in the pallu, woven larger and in far greater detail. That repetition is deliberate. The border introduces the motif quietly, and the pallu delivers it in full. When the pallu is thrown over the shoulder, the annapakshi is what people see.
The saree comes with an attached blouse piece, woven in the same maroon with a matching zari border, so your blouse carries the same detail as the saree without any extra work needed. Stitch it plain and let the border do everything.
Border Details: The border is broad and runs along both the top and bottom edge of the saree, worked in deep maroon against the ivory body. A thin bottle green line runs along the outer edge, framing the maroon and giving it depth.
Inside the border sits row after row of gold zari — fine woven bands, geometric lines, and repeating ornamental blocks. And woven right through it is the annapakshi, the mythical swan of South Indian temple art, repeating in miniature along the full length of the border on both edges of the saree.
This is deliberate, not decorative filler. The annapakshi is the signature motif of this saree, and the border is where it is introduced — small, repeated, quiet. It then reappears in the pallu, woven far larger and in much greater detail. Border first, pallu last. The motif runs the entire length of the saree and ties the whole piece together, so wherever the saree falls or folds, the swan is somewhere in view.
The zari throughout is tested zari, silk-based — real metallic thread wound onto a silk core, not the flat plastic film used in imitation work. That's why the gold here has a soft, deep glow that shifts with the light instead of a hard, uniform glitter.
Special Techniques: A Kanchipuram is not one piece of fabric. It's three, joined by hand while still on the loom, and that is the entire reason it costs what it costs.
The silk. The yarn is pure mulberry silk, and this saree carries the Silk Mark — the certification issued by the Central Silk Board that guarantees 100% natural silk. Kanchipuram weavers use a heavier, multi-ply silk than most other traditions: several filaments twisted together into one thicker thread. That's where the weight, the fall, and the durability come from. A Kanchipuram is built to be worn for forty years, not four.
The zari. Tested zari, silk-based. A fine metallic wire is drawn out, flattened, and wound tightly around a silk core thread — imagine a ribbon wrapped around a pencil, at a scale you'd need a magnifier to see. In the body it's used sparingly to form the small buttas. In the pallu it's packed in densely to build those solid gold sections. Real metal zari glows and shifts; imitation zari glitters flat. On a saree this classical, that difference is the whole point.
Korvai — the contrast border. The ivory body and the maroon border are woven from two separate warps in two different colours. Where they meet, the weaver interlocks the threads by hand, one against the next, all the way down the length of the saree. This needs three shuttles working together and, traditionally, two people at the loom. The proof of a true korvai is the join itself — run your finger along it and you'll feel a fine ridge. It's a genuine seam of interlocked silk, not a border printed or woven flat into a single fabric.
Petni — the contrast pallu. The join between the ivory body and the maroon pallu is done differently, and it is the slowest part of the whole saree. Each ivory warp thread is individually knotted or twisted onto a maroon warp thread — thousands of joins, made one at a time, by hand, before weaving can continue. Look closely at the transition band and you can see where one colour hands over to the other. It is the mark of a real handloom Kanchipuram and it can't be faked on a power loom.
Put together, a saree of this weight and pallu density typically takes several weeks on the loom. It is slow work, and there is no way to make it faster.
Season: All seasons
Care Instructions: Only dry cleaning. Never steam iron. If ironing at home, place a cotton/mulmul cloth on top of the saree and use your iron at the lowest heat setting. Our skilled artisans use natural dyes for all our handloom collection and this will protect the intricate zari work, fabric and wont harm your precious handloom.
Store in a cotton bag or a muslin cloth to protect against moisture.
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