Marigold Handwoven Pure Silk Kancheepuram Saree with Ganga Jamuna Zari Kattam Rettapet Border

There is a marigold that belongs to temple garlands and harvest celebrations — warm, generous, and impossible to ignore. This marigold Kancheepuram carries that quality into silk. The body is woven in Zari Kattam, where fine zari threads intersect across the silk body to form a luminous grid, the warm yellow ground turning every gold intersection into something richer than either colour alone.

The body is marigold — full, luminous, and deeply warm — and the Zari Kattam gold grid runs across it in fine intersecting lines, the gold on gold creating a body that glows from within rather than reflecting from the surface. This is the Kancheepuram that reads as celebration before the border is even seen.

The border is a Ganga Jamuna Rettapet — twin parallel border lines that create a balanced layered edge, with bottle green on one side and deep maroon on the other. The dual-colour border grounds the marigold body in a three-colour combination — marigold, green, maroon — that is among the most traditional in the Kanchipuram weaver's vocabulary. The pallu carries both border colours forward with the same Rettapet gold zari structure.

A bottle green, deep maroon, or raw silk gold blouse each opens a different interpretation. Gold jewellery — temple chains, jhumkas, and broad bangles — completes the look naturally. For Pongal, harvest festivals, weddings, or any occasion where warmth is the intention.

❖ Weave: Zari Kattam body — fine zari threads intersecting to form a luminous grid; Rettapet border — twin parallel lines, balanced layered edge
❖ Body: Marigold Zari Kattam with gold grid
❖ Border: Ganga Jamuna Rettapet — bottle green and deep maroon
❖ Pallu: Bottle green and deep maroon with gold Rettapet zari
❖ Silk Mark certified pure mulberry silk
❖ Length: 6.3 metres