Hi all This saree has been one of my most favourite ones till date, from Odissa bought from one of the first National handloom textile expos held in Bhopal in 1980….I had specially made a golden yellow blouse and did the glass beadwork on it myself. That was the period of Shyam Benegal, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil (to name a few) and handloom sarees…!! I had developed the love for the hand spun and hand woven textiles after taking training in textile designing and interning at weaver’s service center between 1977 and 1980…
Over the years this saree and me became inseperable until one day I lost the beaded blouse to my dhobi….along with a few other handloom sarees…after that I did not feel like wearing it without its blouse as this always reminded me of the blouse I had lost….!!
However today being the special day of joining all of you on this journey I thought of starting the 1st day with this saree not worrying about what blouse I was wearing it with…this day I dedicate to all the handloom weavers of our country, #100sareepact and all the women of the world …This photo is not good but the thought and the saree is….cheers