First weaver conversations
of the season.

The chikankari masters we work with in Lucknow have shared a stitch pattern — not new exactly, but old and almost forgotten — that one of their grandmothers used in pieces for the Nawab court. It is going onto the next collection's anarkalis. I have not told the women I work with in Sydney yet, because I want them surprised when the samples arrive.

And the Kanchipuram weaver and I have been going back and forth about whether oxblood is too dark for an occasion saree. I say it depends on the wearer. He says it depends on her mother. He is probably more right than I am.

More as these conversations unfold. We are also in early talks with a new bandhani cluster in Bhuj — I'll write about them if it comes together.