Good morning! Hope you had a great weekend. Yesterday, I went to Chitra Kala Parishath for the Vastrabharana Exhibition. Vastrabharana is held every year to showcase hand-crafted textiles from around the country. The exhibition primarily showcases saris and jewellery with a few collection of dress materials and stoles. Of all the handloom exhibitions I’ve visited, this one wins hands down. Each stall is unique and rich in its own way with no room for mediocrity in design, style or price.

To say, you would come back awed by the hand-woven saris collection would be an understatement. First off, hats off to the talent and diversity we have in our country; it’s unparalleled.  Do you ever make a mental note to not go back to one of these exhibitions again because you can’t pick everything and that is depressing?

From Telia Rumal of Andhra Pradesh, hand-woven Tussar from West Bengal, Chattisgarh, M.P., and Bihar, chanderi, maheshwari, ajrakh, bagh, hand-dyed fabric to Mura Collectives and handwoven Kanchipuram cotton saris, you’ll find it all.

I went going back in circles not knowing what to click, what images to soak in – the pure pleasure of feeling silk against your palm and the wide array of colors.

The picture you see below is of the Bandhini stall from Gujarat.