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Shop handcrafted saris, shawls, accessories and textile treasures from the subcontinent. Rithihi - meaning style of expression.
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In other words, Rithihi is about expressing ones heritage and tradition through modern style. Every piece you see at Rithihi is unique, carefully selected to provide as wide a range of products as is possible. There are shawls, saris, kurthas and jewelry to suit every occasion and every taste. When you purchase a sari at Rithihi you get a piece of tradition, which has adapted to the shifting sands of time - whether you chose very traditional silk or more playful cotton. Our products are not limited to India, but come from all over the sub-continent. Much focus is given to encouraging the work of Sri Lankan designers and weaves as well to reflect our proud islands heritage.

26/10/2026

A meeting of places, held together by colour.

Bhagalpur tussar silk from Bihar falls in rose-copper folds, its warmth echoed in a Kadambari chain of gold-plated silver, carnelian, green agate and faceted citrine. At its centre, a Karo Batak pendant from Indonesia’s Sumatran highlands. An Amrapali anklet completes the ensemble.

Distinct origins, brought into quiet conversation.
Featured:
1.Bhagalpur tussar silk sari
2.Kadambari chain with a gold-plated silver Karo Batak pendant
and beads, carnelian, green agate and faceted citrine
3.Amrapali anklet

25/10/2026

Before the colour, there are the knots. Thousands of them, each tied by hand.

Made in Gujarat, these cotton Bandhani shawls carry the rhythm of a painstaking resist-dye craft. Tiny points of cloth are pinched and bound before dyeing, then released to reveal a constellation of dots. Seen together, a pattern. Seen closely, the patient work of hands.

Featured: Bandhani cotton shawls.

25/10/2026

Before the colour, there are the knots. Thousands of them, each tied by hand.

Made in Gujarat, these cotton Bandhani shawls carry the rhythm of a painstaking resist-dye craft. Tiny points of cloth are pinched and bound before dyeing, then released to reveal a
constellation of dots. Seen together, a pattern. Seen closely, the patient work of hands.

Featured: Bandhani cotton shawls.

22/10/2026

Stories to linger over, cloth to live in.

In Up Sigiriya & Escalators with Kit Kat, Goolbai Gunasekera captures a little of Sri Lanka through memories, familiar characters and unexpected encounters, told with wit and warmth. A book to dip into on an unhurried afternoon.

Beneath it, a handwoven Bengal cotton sari in green, edged in
rust. Light enough for the afternoon heat, softening with each
wear.

Featuring: Up Sigiriya & Escalators with Kit Kat · Goolbai Gunasekera And Bengal Cotton Sari

21/10/2026

Once worn in the hair, now resting close to the heart.

An antique Tibetan silver hair ornament finds a new rhythm in the Kadambari collection. Set with turquoise and coral, it hangs from a strand of turquoise and silver beads, a meeting of vivid colour and time-worn silver, carrying its past into the present.

19/10/2026

Some objects tell stories long after the hands that made them are gone.

In The Story of Furniture in Sri Lanka, Ayesha Abdur-Rahman
traces twenty-one centuries of the island’s religious, secular and domestic furniture, revealing the craftsmanship, traditions and cultural exchanges that continue to shape how we make and live. Beside it, two bangles carry their own histories: Sri Lankan silver and crystal quartz below; Algerian silver and red glass above.

One from here, one from afar, each a quiet expression of place, craft and enduring beauty.

16/10/2026

After diaspora communities settle for a generation or two, something coalesces that is recognizably its own: not quite the clothing of the original homeland, not the clothing of the new country either, but a considered, confident middle distance between the two. From South Asia, but of the world.

Read the full story ‘The Cloth That Travelled’ in our blog; link in bio.

Friday Sari Project

16/10/2026

Cloth isn’t the only thing that travels.

In this Kadambari collection, Rashantha Devanesan brings together antique silver from Morocco and Yemen, Balinese silverwork and Venetian glass, threading them into new chains with malachite, onyx, lapis lazuli and crystal quartz.

Each piece carries a history of place and craft, finding a new expression in the way it is paired and worn. Old pieces, new lives, gathered from afar, here at Rithihi.

Featured:
1.An antique Moroccan silver forehead pendant, paired with malachite and onyx.
2.A Balinese silver pendant with antique Venetian millefiori beads and crystal quartz.
3.An antique silver pendant and antique Yemeni silver beads, brought together as a pendant with lapis lazuli and malachite.

16/10/2026

Post-colonial aspirations about greener western pastures shaped the slow, great migration that continues to this day in pauses and surges. It started in the 1950s, and South Asians started settling in, bringing clothing from their home heritages and pairing them with local staples that responded to colder climates, multiple seasons and drier air.

Pictured here are migrating South Asian families arriving at
Heathrow Airport, the UK, in 1968.

Read the full story ‘The Cloth That Travelled’ in our blog;
link in bio.

12/10/2026

Climate demanded layering; work needed practicality; the wish to belong, without disappearing, called for compromise. Diaspora dressing, as it has developed, shows far more fluidity and blurring across regional and religious lines than clothing choices back home ever did.

The sociologist Parminder Bhachu has traced this closely among the twice-migrated Sikh families of East Africa and then Britain: it was second-generation women, not their elders, who took the salwar kameez, once dismissed as low-status immigrant dress, and reworked it into something that would eventually walk London’s catwalks in the late 1990s, worn even by Princess Diana.

Pictured here is a 1940 street scene with women and a child of British-Indian descent, wearing salwars, kameez with layered dupatta adjusting to the climate, and a glimpse into where the Rithihi curation borrows from multiple cultures.

Read the full story ‘The Cloth That Travelled’ in our blog; link in bio.

Address

Colombo
03000

Opening Hours

Monday	10:00 - 18:00
Tuesday	10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday	10:00 - 18:00
Thursday	10:00 - 18:00
Friday	10:00 - 18:00
Saturday	10:00 - 18:00

Telephone

+94112581988

Website

http://www.rithihi.com/

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