Arunima: Kattam Silk Cotton Kanjeevaram

Look at me under one light and I read rust, look again and I have already warmed into copper, the shift happening so quietly you only notice it when you glance away and look back. That movement comes from the SICO itself, silk and cotton woven together on the loom so the yarn catches every angle of light differently. My checked body runs the length of me in fine gold lines, small and steady, until it meets my purple border where everything changes register, lotus motifs blooming row after row in gold against the deep purple ground. The border does not shimmer the way my body does, it simply holds, rich and constant, the anchor to all that movement above it. I carry two moods in one drape, warm and moving at the top, deep and sure at the border.