The Brief
The studio conversation. Reference images, palette, weave, motif vocabulary. We commit nothing to the loom until you sign off.
A conversation, first
The commission begins over coffee.
The first meeting is unhurried — at the studio, or by video call. We talk about who the saree is for, where it will be worn, what the giver remembers about it being seen. We look at old photographs, your mother's wardrobe, a colour you cannot stop dreaming about.
Varalaxmi sketches as you talk. By the end of the conversation we have a brief: weave, palette, motif, drape weight, where the embroidery should sit, how the pallu should fall.
We then share a fair price for the piece — built on the cost of the yarn and zari, the hours on the loom, and the in-house printing and embroidery. You sign off before the loom moves.