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02/01/2026

08/10/2025

Customer Diaries:

Here's our lovely friend Chandra ringing in the Navami day celebrations in our lightweight embroidered Organza saree.

Isn't she making an enchanting presence ♥️🙏❤️

Thank you, for being there for us, always!

08/10/2025

Bhujodi, soft cotton 2/80 count sarees, with attached blouse piece.

07/10/2025

Customer Diaries:

As this beautiful, sweet girl celebrated her birthday yesterday, also the day the Bengal and eastern India communities do Lakshmi Puja with great fervour, enthusiasm and devotion, it's her choice of that has filled our mind and heart with overwhelming emotion.

For, when beautiful friends like her select their WeaveStory creations to celebrate their special days, that you feel that exceptional , added love, the support, the encouragement - towards handloom, towards our weavers and artisans - both of which make WeaveStory what it is!

Her is also exceptional, like she is!

Happy Birthday dearest Anu! May you keep shining brighter and emerge stronger as you firm up your place in the world.

Thank you, for your love and support, always 🙏♥️

05/10/2025

This tissue-Katan pure silk Chanderi, with the meenakari gold and silk thread flower buttas, make for the perfect Diwali saree - whether you're doing Lakshmi Puja with family, or going for a party at your friend's.

And note the WeaveStory speciality - the teal Blue selvedge, adding that extra zing!

03/10/2025

This gorgeous Baluchari, a rare creation of a contrast, two-toned saree body and pallu, has found its true place in the loving care of this stunning patron. It's an honor to have her as a dear friend, she's so passionate about handlooms & handmade and with an eye for the best.

Her vibrance radiates and seems to add more brilliance to even the base body shade of the saree - which, if you note, is in dual-tone.

Thank you, dear Chandra, for all your love. Your kind words and support for our weavers & artisans makes WeaveStory what it stands for.

14/09/2025

The speciality of these two Paithani handloom pure silk sarees is that they have a special weaving style.

The borders, woven with munia (parrot) motifs, have been woven, separate to the main saree tana, and then joined, thread by thread, to the tana, in a weaving technique similar to the korvai in kanchipuram and gadwal sarees.

But, that's the technique for all munia border Paithanis. So what's the (added) speciality?
It is, that while generally the munia border Paithanis are woven in zari, these borders have been woven on full silk. So it's a pure silk-on-silk Paithani : not-so-common instance of this munia-Paithani style.

Two sarees - both amazing works of art. One with our signature teen popat (3 parrots) pallu design, the other, with one of our special Asavali design, with such a charming light mehendi green shade.

13/07/2025

The UNESCO World Heritage Ajanta caves, situation in Aurangabad - now called Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Maharashtra, india, are renowned for their elaborate handcurved rock-cut murals and sculptures, showcasing scenes from the Jataka tales and the life of Buddha. 

The Asawali or Asavali is one of the motifs used in the Ajanta cave paintings, particularly in the ceilings and borders, alongside other traditional motifs such as peacocks, parrots, and lotuses. 

However, the Asavali motif in Paithani sarees was introduced from the patolas woven in Gujarat. The Peshwas brought in weavers from Gujarat to weave Paithani sarees for the royal family, who brought their own designs and motifs but later on, Paithani took on the designs closer to the roots and traditional Maharashtrian designs, specially the parrot and the royal bird peacock became dominant designs woven into Paithani sarees.

To this date, Asawali remains one of the prominent, but slightly more exclusive motifs in Paithani sarees; the exclusivity is because only limited weavers have the skill, patience and knowledge to weave these motifs.

Our today's curated Paithani pure silk handloom saree, with Asawali pallu, munia brocade borders and the exclusive koyari/kairi (mango) motifs on the body, is one of a kind. This is very, very exclusive.

12/05/2025

A design experiment in our Paithani range - pure zari, densely woven pallu in jacquard, rather than the traditional jala weaving of a Paithani. The body buttas are what we in traditional maharashtrian call as "chandrakor" - half moon+star.
Tried the same design in a pastel of very light moss-pista shade also; woven designs are all in zari.

Open for pre-bookings.

28/02/2025

Customer Diaries :

It never feels enough to admiring my dear Priya, and this masterful creation in saree.
Thank you, dear Priya. Wonderful to know that you'd a memorable trip, celebrating milestones and being in the midst of family. Lots of love ❤️
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Posted As I bid goodbye to India after a short, hectic but memorable trip to India, draped this one of my all time favorites.. I remember seeing this saree with and being enamoured by it.. I bombarded Di with so many questions as hadn’t seen anything like this before.. my Bichitrapuri/ Passampalli (10/25) is a wonderful addition to my wardrobe.. I can vividly recall how patient Di was in talking to me and making me understand all about this awesome awesome weave from Orissa.. there’s more to my love with Orissa weaves but this is definitely an integral part of it.. every time I drape it, it only gets better and truly embraces me lovingly in all its wisdom and glory.. no words can do justice to its beauty.. can’t believe thanks to these drapes have managed to cross paths with such wonderful people.. grateful and humbled..

15/02/2025

A Stunning End Result - of this experimental weaving on a Gadwal, on pure silk, with the temple motifs woven in alternate warp and weft threads to give the illusion of these motifs forming the borders of the saree.

Also note, the parrot-pair, a completely new motif in Gadwal weaving.
The contrast blouse piece also has the jori-pakshi (bird-pair) woven all-over ; after all, this is a Valentine's Day Special release 🥰

14/02/2025

The perfect saree post for our Valentine's Day - that shot blood, dual tone Red motif Swarnachari, with the designs / motifs in the pallu very special from our looms.

Available in one other enchanting shade (in Stories).