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Sari mythology
One
of the most sensuous of attire- the sari, adorns a woman to become modest
and attractive in it. It is not cumbersome but a great antique that suits
to any occasion. The great Indian women in different spheres of life, the
rich and the poor admire and appreciate the style and strength of the
sari.
Though
one of the oldest apparels, there is something mystical about the way one
wraps, folds, tucks and drapes a seamless piece of cloth: creating a form
from the formless. The sari both conceals and reveals, depending on the
weaver’s whim and conditioning. The versatile sari has its variety
fashion in adorning in this multicultural society of India. The style,
texture varies from south to north and east to west in India. The latest
trend in sari-blouses has become a style of added value to the wearer with
a magnetic grace and attraction.
The Sari
resembles as a canvas to the weaver, the block printer, the textile
designer or the mill hand. A hand woven sari is the most organic attire
one can wear. When you wear that hand-woven sari, you are paying your
tribute to our craft persons who have stubbornly struck to the skills
and traditions thousands of years old. It is too easy to look to
modernity and risk losing one’s poetry.
Thus sari is
not just attire but it embodies the warp and weft of life itself. The
essential simplicity of the sari—an untailored length of cloth
measuring between four and nine meters long by approximately one meter
wide—is set against a wonderful variety of fabrics, colors, patterns,
and draping styles. It displays the rich diverse regional traditions of
color, pattern, and weave. The etymology (origin) of the word sari is
from the Sanskrit word 'sati', which means strip of cloth. This evolved
into the Prakrit 'sadi' and was later anglicised into sari.
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