Tamil Nadu
Kanchipuram
Three-shuttle korvai silk with contrast borders, woven on pit looms. Eleven weeks for a bridal piece is normal here.
About
Six generations of looms, one honest price.
A saree should carry the name of the person who made it.
Ojasvi Drapes began at a single loom in Kanchipuram, with a frustration that would not go away: the weaver who had spent six months on a saree was seeing a fraction of what it sold for in a city showroom. So we started buying directly, paying upfront, and putting the weaver's name on the label.
6
Weaving clusters
340+
Artisan families
12k
Happy customers
0
Middlemen
What handloom actually means
It means a person sat at a loom and threw a shuttle by hand, thousands of times, for weeks. It means the selvedge is slightly uneven, the dye lot varies a little from the last one, and no two pieces are quite identical.
Those are not flaws to apologise for. They are the difference between cloth that was made and cloth that was manufactured — and they are the reason a good saree outlives the person who bought it.
Woven by hand. Priced by honesty. ojasvidrapes
Where the cloth comes from
Six Clusters
We work with the same families year after year, in the towns their craft is named after.
Uttar Pradesh
Banaras
Katan silk with real zari butis, jangla and shikargah patterns drawn on graph paper before a single thread is thrown.
Telangana
Pochampally
Double ikat, where the yarn is tie-dyed before weaving so the pattern appears as the cloth is made, not after.
Madhya Pradesh
Chanderi
Feather-light cotton-silk with a glassy transparency that comes from never degumming the yarn.
Bihar
Bhagalpur
Tussar silk in its natural gold, spun from cocoons collected after the moth has already left.
Gujarat
Bhuj
Bandhani tied by hand, thousands of knots per saree, each one a fingertip pinch of cloth and a length of thread.
Why we skip the middleman
A saree usually passes through an agent, a wholesaler and a retailer before it reaches you. Each one takes a margin, and the weaver — the only person who actually made anything — takes the smallest one.
We buy at the loom and sell to you. The weaver earns several times more per piece, and you pay less than you would in a showroom for the same cloth. Nobody has to lose for that maths to work; there were simply too many hands in the middle.
What we stand for
Our Promise
Direct from the loom
We buy straight from weaver families and pay upfront, before a piece is sold. No agents, no consignment, no waiting ninety days to be paid for three months of work.
Certified, or clearly labelled
Pure silk carries a Silk Mark or Handloom Mark. Where a piece is blended, powerloom, or uses tested rather than pure zari, the product page says so in plain words.
Finished properly
Free fall and pico stitching on silk sarees, and blouse pieces cut with a generous margin so your tailor has room to work with.
Packed like a gift
A cotton pouch, a card naming the weaver, and a note on how to care for the cloth — because it should last decades, not seasons.
From loom to doorstep
How a Piece Reaches You
We visit the cluster
Two or three trips a year to each weaving town. We see the looms, meet the families, and choose pieces in person rather than from a catalogue.
We pay on the spot
The weaver is paid when we take the cloth, at a price agreed with them. That is the whole reason this business exists.
We check every piece
Each saree is opened, measured, checked against the light for pulls, and photographed in daylight with no colour correction.
We finish it for you
Fall and pico where it is needed, pressed, folded in muslin, and packed with the weaver's card tucked inside.
It reaches your door
Dispatched within two days, tracked the whole way, and returnable for a week if it is not what you hoped for.
Come and see the Difference
Every piece on the site was chosen in person, from a loom we have stood beside. Have a look.