28/08/2026
They say beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder and it is especially true for Handloom. because only a few handful of women will find beauty in these slower, harder and often more expensive products like purely handwoven sarees. only If you find it beautiful you probably will find the price justified. otherwise no matter how many time we explain the process of hand spinning, natural dyeing, winding the warp, weaving slowly and solely by hand by picking each thread for creating design will not satisfy your choice. especially when visually more appealing sarees are available at fraction of its price.
I always believe that for people who buy saree online, not choosing to buy a handloom is rarely a matter of affordability but a matter of mindset. it is about what you value, how the world around you had shaped your eyes to recognise and appreciate beauty and ultimately what you are willing to pay for.
because women who know they know.
They do not buy handloom to follow a trend, they choose it to feel something, which probably is different for everyone. some feel good about the long tradition and history that it carries, some want to curate one heirloom piece at a time, for some its the pride of owning an one of a kind saree, some might value sustainability and some would love the comfort of wearing something made by hand. It is about appreciating the time, skill, imperfections and human hands behind every piece. When you truly understand and fall in love with that story, the saree becomes more than just something you wear—it becomes something you value.
These are the people who have kept handloom alive, because the day these people will stop cherishing handmade things, it will disappear without any trace.
I have curated a few pieces of Kotpad this week. Will post one by one. From start to finish one saree would need a minimum of 45 days to finish. Only a few artisans in the Koraput region of Odisha are still doing these the way it is meant to be using only natural dyes.
contact me if you would like to own one.
(Kotpad saree, tribal sarees, weaving tradition Odisha )
