But, the business of one craft defies this norm to survive and succeed. We are talking about the Patola sarees of Patan. It takes the combined effort of four weavers anywhere between four to six ...

Historically, Patola sarees were worn by royal and aristocratic families, symbolising wealth and status. The art of Patola weaving was brought to Patan by the Salvi community from Maharashtra and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Patan patola saris range from $1,500 to $8,500. Instead of designs being embroidered onto the textile, Patan patola requires them to be dyed onto the silk threads ...

A fabric traditionally woven in the Patan region of Gujarat. The patola yardage uses pure silk thread with a double-ikat weave — double warp and weft threads. A labour-intensive craft, a single patola ...

Weaving one patola sari takes around seven months to a year and it is said that there are just three families in Patan who weave double ikat saris. What is patola? Even those remotely interested ...

What is the difference between Rajkot and Patan Patola? Gaurang Shah: The difference is very subtle, and what differentiates both is the exquisiteness and the allure, which Patan Patola scores ...

The Patola saris are one of India’s finest and most recognisable weaves. Originating from Patan region in Gujarat, they have a rich heritage spanning back to the 12th century and today ...

D Sons Patola Art Exhibition was inaugurated by socialite Yenugu Shailaja Reddy at Labels Pop-up Space, Banjara Hills, ...

These were the Salvis or ‘weavers of silk’ and this special weave was patola. Out of the 700 craftsmen that moved to Patan, Gujarat, only one such family continues the tradition of weaving ...

The patola – the pride of Gujarat’s Patan – thrives hundreds of kilometres away in the temples of Kerala’s Malabar coast as ‘veeralipattu’. The duo had presented the paper at an ...