“Buy two grand duppattas, join them and embellish or embroider with bright motifs at the right places. Hold the new fabric a few feet away and take a look. You can have an exquisite sari not woven by you, but indigenously created by you. Match it up with a novel printed blouse. I am sure you will not find another sari like that,” says Padmavathy Gunasekar, a women entrepreneur, who runs a shop called ‘Tuhil’ at R.A. Puram
Bubbling with myriad ideas, Padmavathy says how a person can create new sari from an old one (provided the old is not worn out), thereby giving the fabric a new look. Amazing are the ways she deals with materials such as cotton, silk cotton, Venkatagiri and Mangalagiri. The icing on the cake is turning the old silk sari of one’s grandmother or mother into a new one!
Originally written for The Hindu, read more at https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/transform-your-sari-the-way-you-want/article3588812.ece