Go for a handwoven sari this Puja from Sutaira

Puja fashion 2019: Sort your festive wardrobe with handwoven wonders from Sutaira

Are you always in two minds while shopping for handwoven apparel, often doubting whether they are actually handcrafted or not? If you’re nodding in agreement, then head straight to Sutaira by DW Studios, a fabulous stop at Salt Lake CJ Block Sector 2, to spot and pick some genuine pieces of handwoven wonders.

<em>This pure tussar sari with a silk muslin and zari pallu is the one you’d love to flaunt on a Saptami night. Wear a modern top blouse in a contrast colour to raise your style quotient by a few notches!</em>

This pure tussar sari with a silk muslin and zari pallu is the one you’d love to flaunt on a Saptami night. Wear a modern top blouse in a contrast colour to raise your style quotient by a few notches!

Run by Asesh Sengupta and Rituparna Bhattacharya, this enterprise supports more than 40 weavers in the Nadia district of Bengal, and has some amazing pieces of nine yards in authentic weaves of khadi, linen, tussar, cotton and muslin.

<em>This linen pastel yellow sari of pure linen yarns is woven in jamdani technique, and is ideal for your Sashti morning get-together. We contrasted the look with a dark green halter-neck blouse top in raw silk, along with a gold neckpiece, to give you the chic look.</em>

This linen pastel yellow sari of pure linen yarns is woven in jamdani technique, and is ideal for your Sashti morning get-together. We contrasted the look with a dark green halter-neck blouse top in raw silk, along with a gold neckpiece, to give you the chic look.

“None of the saris here are machine-made. Each piece that you buy from here has hours of labour put in by weavers, and we take pride in mentioning in our billing, the amount of time that it has taken to create your piece of cloth,” tells Rituparna. What’s most interesting is that in order to keep everything natural, they use natural dyes made out of flower petals.

<em>This bright red, handspun cotton dyed Shaluk sari spotlights a very earthy vermilion shade. We paired the sari with an emerald jadau kundan choker and jhumkas.</em>

This bright red, handspun cotton dyed Shaluk sari spotlights a very earthy vermilion shade. We paired the sari with an emerald jadau kundan choker and jhumkas.

So, you get your shades of red from Hibiscus petals, khayer or manjistha tree bark, your greens come from banana leaves, the yellows are derived from turmeric, while the blues hail from Aparajita flower petals, and at times, indigo. Black and grey are extracted from charcoal.

T<em>his Dhakai jamdani weave is a replica of a precious 150-year-old design, recreated on the finest quality of linen yarns. This earthen white or Kora shade of sari with typical Bengali red borders is just the one for your Ashtami morning look. A red bindi, juras and a lot of gold jewellery will complement the look to the tee.</em>

This Dhakai jamdani weave is a replica of a precious 150-year-old design, recreated on the finest quality of linen yarns. This earthen white or Kora shade of sari with typical Bengali red borders is just the one for your Ashtami morning look. A red bindi, juras and a lot of gold jewellery will complement the look to the tee.

This year, they have a variety of handloom collections including saris and kurtis ranging from bright hues of red, maroon and yellow to pastel shades of peach, pink and lime green. “We have the classic cotton collection called Shaluk that is made from hand-spun yarns. There are also lemongrass linen saris using lemon peels.

This linen Padmini sari in black and gold weaves with lotus bud motifs is the perfect choice for a Navami night out. We complemented the look with Chhapka earrings, to add
some extra glamour.

The tussar saris that we are making are created after several rounds of polishing, to remove the extra fibres that lend them a smooth lustrous fall,” says Rituparna. You can pair the saris with mismatched tops or kurtis to lend a very Boho-chic look to these traditional weaves, just the way we have done in these pictures. Check them out and have your pick!

Hair and make-up: Abhijit Paul

Model: Dimple Acharya

Saris: Sutaira

Accessories: Avama Jewellers

Styling: Sumit Sinha

Location: Sutaira, DW Studios

Pictures: Satwik Paul

Puja fashion 2019: Sort your festive wardrobe with handwoven wonders from Sutaira

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