The best Saree Picture ever! Saree at the temple

The best Saree Picture ever! Saree at the temple

This is the best Saree sari picture ever!

This is so magnificent. The temple is amazing and a saree clad woman in the middle gives it a scale and splendor.

She looks like she has been transported from future and placed in 2nd century BCE in front of the temple.

Meena’s blue saree

I encountered this wall paper and found it kind of interesting; I didn’t realize the humor in it till I noticed the instructions on the bottom left.

For pixel challenged viewers, it says “pull” and just in case you are not sure, it even gives you a direction to pull.

Simplicity never goes out of style. Chicknkari Embroidery on a white saree

I don’t particularly like it when people refer to ChicknKari embroidery as just “chicken” - e.g., oh, thats a nice chicken saree!

Doesn’t evoke the right picture in your mind! Can you imagine chickens running around with white sarees on them!

It should have been called NoorJahan embroidery, or embroidery of prophets.

Traditionally Chicknkari is the white thread embroidery done on the white muslin or mulmul. The word chikan comes from the Persian word Chakeen meaning making delicate patterns on the fabric.

The art is said to be introduced by Noorjahan the beautiful queen of Emperor Jahangir. She is said to be an expert in embroidery and inspired by the Turkish embroidery. According to Megasthenes, the chikan originated in East Bengal. He mentions chikan, the florals on fine muslins in 3rd century BC. The craftsmen believe that the origin goes back to the time of Prophet. It is believed that while he was passing through a village in Uttar Pradesh, he requested a villager for water. On being offered that, he gave the art of Chikankari to the poor villager as an art that will never let him go hungry.

Anyway, back to the white chicken saree, oh, I mean, white chickankari embroidered saree.

Its hard to see how pretty the embroidery is in the pictures. The details don’t really show up well. But I do know that it can be very intricate, very luxurious, very simple and very proper.

I remember a friend of mine ( Hi T!) entered a beauty pageant a while ago and while others were busy matching the color of the blouse with the color of the jewelry, she waltz in there with a white saree with minimal make up and minimal jewelry and she looked so stunning that judges had no choice but to pick her!

unusual saree blouse combination that barely works

I would not have expected this combination to work, but somehow it is not as bad as one might have imagined.