Kalamkari Leheriya Printed Soft Silk Saree in Black with Designer Pallu and Gold Border
Pickup available at Chapel Road Fateh Maidan Abids
Usually ready in 2-4 days
Eight in the evening, the lamps are lit, and half the room is in red and maroon. You are in black and gold, and you are the one people look at.
Black is the most underused colour in Indian festive dressing and the most effective. It takes every metal and every stone — gold, oxidised silver, pearls, polki, kundan — so it is the easiest saree in a wardrobe to accessorise, and it photographs cleanly under warm light where brighter colours blow out.
The leheriya waves keep the black from going flat: printed on the diagonal in the Kalamkari manner, they give the body direction and texture. The gold border draws a single clean line down the drape, and the designer pallu holds the detail, so the saree reads quiet from the front and rich from behind.
Soft silk, 6.3 m including the 0.8 m designer blouse piece. Dry clean only, and store it in cotton or muslin rather than plastic — black shows dust faster than anything else.
Order it on srimanishasarees.com or try it at our Abids counter.