The Soft and Smooth Satin Silk Sarees

A lustrous, glossy and smooth fabric that has since a long time been at the center stage of all wedding and royal attires and furnishings, Satin is a popular weave that has been around since the 12^th century and has made its presence felt since then in many forms from ties to coats, jacket linings to ballet shoes and home furnishing to sarees. While the satin used in furnishings and other accessories are made with fabrics like cotton, silk-cotton, polyester, nylon, crepe and georgette, satin sarees are made mainly with silk fabric and are called silk satin sarees.

The Satin silk sarees have an even sheen and they are quite luxurious in touch and feel. While their arresting luster itself makes them a perfect occasion wear, the resilience of satin silk ensures feasibility and scope for elaborate embellishments and embroideries making it a designer’s favorite too since it allows them to design heavy designer satin silk sarees along with heavy embroidered satin silk blouses, cholis and corsets.

While its distinct soft feel and luster is the USP of a satin silk saree, there are many other reasons that engage women in favoring them over many heavy silk sarees. These sarees are light in weight in spite of having thick texture and they are resistant to dust. Due to their thick texture, satin silks make a perfect dressy wear on a cold winter day or even on a rainy day. Satin silk as a fabric has an amazing fall and thus the pleats of a satin silk saree fall beautifully and look graceful. A very popular combination with satin silk is shimmer or net. As these materials complement each other, they are highly popular today in the fashion circuit.
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Weaving Designs and Motifs of Kanchipuram Silk Sarees

Be it because of the lure of its pure mulberry silk or the dazzle of its real zari motifs, the Kanchipuram silk saree continues to hold the pride of place among the various varieties of silk sarees in the country today. Its rich weave and feel holds everyone in its sway and even today it is the preferred bridal saree because of its durability and grandeur.

The designs showcased on Kanchipuram silk sarees are woven in pure zari threads and their motifs range from figures to temple towers along the border. The motifs of these silk sarees most often comprise of Pallava temples, palaces and paintings. The traditional designs found on the body of a Kanjeevaram saree include pyramidal temple borders, checks, stripes and floral buttas.

Earlier, designs were restricted to conservative stripes or gold dots. However, over time emblematic motifs such as fresh mango, sweet grapes elephant, the sun, moon, chariots, swans, elegant peacocks, parrots, lions, coins, lotus, pot, creeper, flower, parrot, hen, and depiction of stories from mythology are woven into the saree in patterns.

 

Some of the traditional motifs featured in the Kanjeevaram saris are Rudraksham (Rudraksha beads), Gopuram (temple towers), ‘mallimogu’(jasmine flower), ‘mayilkan’ (peacock’s eye), ‘kuyilkan’ (nightingale eye) borders. Patterns are also formed with the help of lines and squares. The jasmine flower motifs either on their own or inside a square or round frame are called mallim0gu. The Thandavalam motif has parallel-line motifs running all over the body of the sari while in the pattu motif, the pallu and the border alone have floral motifs independently woven on them.

Today’s designs are more contemporary but these modern motifs continue to lend a festive touch with their magnificent grandeur. One can even see representation of grand paintings by Raja Ravi Verma or scenes from the great epics Ramayana and Mahabharata on the richly woven pallus and sometimes borders of these modern Kanchi pattu sarees, thus encouraging creativity and contempt without compromising on their traditional values and opulence.

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