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Sari

2012 (made)
Artist/Maker
Raw Mango (designed and made)
Sanjay Garg (designer)
Place of origin
Chanderi (woven)

Sanjay Garg and his company Raw Mango are creating a fashionable range of saris aimed at a younger generation. His design interventions focus on simplifying traditional motifs, using bold bright colours and experimenting with handloom weaving to make lighter more wearable saris.

Object details

Categories
Clothing
Textiles
Object type
Sari
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Sari
  • Sari Blouse
  • Petticoat
Materials and techniques
Silk and cotton, hand woven
Silk
Woven
Brief description
Sari, pink/orange chanderi, with orange border and motif of crows on pallou, designed by Sanjay Garg for Raw Mango, woven in Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh, India, 2010, with matching blouse in pink with green sleeve detail and pink petticoat, both tailored at Sanjay Garg's studio, Delhi, 2012
Physical description
Sari, pink/orange chanderi, with orange boarder and green selvedge; the pallou has a motif of small crows woven in rows in pink with one in green; pink blouse with green detail on sleeve and pink petticoat.
Dimensions
  • Length: 5.5m
  • Height: 1.2m
Gallery label
(03/10/2015-10/01/2016)
SARI WITH 108 CROWS

Raw Mango is at the forefront of making saris more fashionable to a younger generation. Designer Sanjay Garg simplifies traditional motifs, combining them with bright colours and a mix of silk and cotton thread to make lighter, more wearable saris. The pallu or end of the sari has 108 (an auspicious number in India) small crows in pink, with one woven in green.

Designed by Sanjay Garg (b.1980) for Raw Mango
Silk and cotton
Woven in Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh, 2012
V&A: IS.18-2012
Summary
Sanjay Garg and his company Raw Mango are creating a fashionable range of saris aimed at a younger generation. His design interventions focus on simplifying traditional motifs, using bold bright colours and experimenting with handloom weaving to make lighter more wearable saris.
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.18:1 to 3-2012

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Record createdOctober 30, 2012
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1256989/sari-sanjay-garg/
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