Pink Kanchipuram Silk Saree with Elephant Motifs and Green Pallu buti motif Photographed against soft ivory satin

Photographed against soft ivory satin beside a hand-carved wooden box and fresh jasmine

Purple Zari Saree

Though it would hold up either way

Square neckline with straps for ages 4-5

Pink Kanchipuram Silk Saree with Elephant Motifs and Green Pallu buti motif Photographed against soft ivory satinElephants, deer and lions, walking in columns down the body in silver and gold. This is the old Kanchipuram vocabulary animals in procession, the way they appear on temple walls and it has not needed updating. The ground is pink. The pallu turns parrot green, filled with elephant roundels worked in tonal green and gold, edged with a checked zari band and closed with green tassels. The blouse is the heaviest work in this collection: parrot green silk