About

From the Bharany Donation,
National Museum, Delhi, 2014.

My own saree collection is spread across a few cities. In March 2015, I began tweeting using the handle @SareeSearch mainly to catalogue my sarees, both handloom and not, not so much to showcase the extraordinary but simply to keep track of what I have (most of which, in my opinion, is extraordinary even though almost none of my sarees are expensive), and to give myself the opportunity to look at them —they're so often works of art— without having to worry about distance or the effort it'd take to lift them.

Rather to my surprise, a few people showed an interest in contributing, and the handle stopped featuring images of my sarees alone. (In case you're interested in sharing original pics of some of your sarees via @SareeSearch, please let me know tagging the handle in your own tweets.)

Since 2015, SareeSearch has turned more into an exploration of various weaves and embroideries than it is a catalogue of sarees acquired, and this blog contains short posts on a few different kinds of sarees.

— Nandita Saikia