Palam Silks Celebrates Culture and Craft with Vibrant New Collections this Diwali
Chennai: Palam Silks has always been a trailblazer in crafting innovative designs in silk. With 2023 and 2024, Palam has created a niche in music with Resonance Collection and explored world art in with Seeker Collection. Palam Silks has unveiled 3 brand new collections for Diwali 2024 touching upon vibrant threadwork, unusual box pallus and culture rich bhuttas.
Marapachi Collection is an ode to the wooden dolls of yore. These dolls made from medicinal trees like Sandalwood, Ebony wood are believed to be bringers of good fortune, prosperity and good health. Similar to Kanchipuram Silk Sarees, our ancestors considered Marapachi dolls as an heirloom and passed them to the women of the family as a wedding present. A decorated wooden horse doll in a mix of gold and silver zari debuts under the Marapachi Collection ranging between 20,000 to 25,000.
“Marapachi Dolls are believed to spread good energy and vibration because of the medicinal properties of the trees they are carved from. We wanted to bring this element into the design by adding the visual texture of a tree bark across the body of the saree” says Jeyasree Ravi, Founder of Palam Silks.
Vignette Collection turns thread bhuttas into vibrant artworks. Threads are predominantly woven along with zari to amplify the visual impact of zari work. In Vignette Collection, we have thrown the spotlight on threadwork and feature thread bhuttas taking the form of brush strokes. Butterfly and Daffodil bhuttas make their first appearance under Vignette Collection priced between 20,000 to 25,000.
Monolith Collection re-imagines the pallu of the saree fearlessly. In a standard silk saree, pallu is hidden away from design experiments and follows traditional jacquard weave. Palam Silks goes out of the box by weaving the pallu inside a box. The plain frame around the box design is a show of understated elegance.
“All 3 collections are close to my heart as we have picked the most celebrated elements of a silk saree and redefined them in an unusual way. With Marapachi, we hope this silk saree brings prosperity and well-being to your home, true to its nature. With Vignette and Monolith, we have given a new meaning to thread bhuttas and pallu patterns and made them artistic. Every year we envision a “new” silk saree. This Diwali 2024 series is our first attempt in creating modern art with silk sarees”.
