Bangladesh's Tangail sari is fighting for survival as weavers warn that automation and economic pressures are pushing the centuries-old craft to the brink despite its global acclaim.

For as long as my mother and I can remember, my nani (“maternal grandmother” in Hindi) has always worn a bright pleated cotton sari—come what may. Be it cooking up a storm, churning homemade butter in ...

Clad in a dull green sari, Keerthy Suresh’s Savitri in Mahanati sits quietly in a taxi. She listens as the driver speaks of his daughter’s wedding and his mounting worry of affording it. Upon reaching ...

“The Offbeat Sari” explores the influence and evolution of the traditional South Asian garment. By Phyllida Jay The sari, in essence, is a six- to nine-yard cloth draped freely around the body. But ...

The sari debuted in the Indus Valley around 2800 B.C.E. Here in the 21st century, it’s undergoing “conceivably its most rapid reinvention in its 5,000-year history,” according to the Design Museum in ...

If sari-anxiety is a condition, Kala Niketan certainly induces it. In crunch-infested Mumbai, the two stores at Marine Line and Juhu occupy over 3,700 square meters. And both are lined, wall to wall ...

Mothers, sisters, aunts — every family has that one relative who is adept at draping a sari. Until a few years ago, one of them would be assigned the task of draping the bride’s wedding sari. She ...