Sattika By Geena

The journal

Notes from the loom

How the cloth is made, how to keep it well, and how to wear it through an ordinary week.

Three shuttles, a pit loom set into the floor, and the join that lets the border be a different colour from the body.

Damp air is hard on zari and harder on folds. A few small habits keep a saree ready to wear when the rains come.

You do not need a special occasion. Here is how a handloom saree earns a place in an ordinary week.