Saturday 17 March 2018

               INCREDIBLE VENKATGIRI SAREE

Venkatgiri, a small village of Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh with excellent skills, rich culture, and natures beauty. This is what my perception before tripping to Venkatgiri.I planned to go by local bus which would help me to enjoy the essence of local flavor with high quality regional authentic culture. Though the distance was mostly 36km  from Srikalahastiswar to Venkatgiri.It took 45 minutes to one hour journey. That short time permitted us to explore the beauty of nature on both the sides of the road.The green paddy fields and the farmer's undivided attention on their work at field made the picture more attractive for a visitor like me. Once I landed there my mysterious eyes searched for the location of weavers where I could find the looms.Though the local areas are not too large but very traditional shops are existed.While enquiring about the exact location of the shop from where I could collect Venkatgiri saree. I searched with the help of some locals. While passing through the main street bazaar I came across a big Havelli of the erstwhile royal dynasty.I stood there for a while to observe the architectural style of that palace.
                                                 
 During  1700 century, Velugoti Dynasty encouraged the weavers to weave saree for queens, royal women, and zamindars. Since then the weaving was the main attraction for everybody.The weaving village is known for its best skills and craftsmanship for producing one of the best kind of sarees in India.Venkatgiri sarees are mostly soft cotton and silk. Mostly all looms are pit looms. Villagers have followed traditionally their profession.The softness of the fabrics creates uniqueness from others.Cotton sarees are weaved in a Jamdani design.Recheria Rulers of Venkatgiri gave most credit for the progress of fine weaving. That tradition continued for a long then the present scenario compelled them to improve more to satiate the quest of modern customer.   

                                                                                                                               
  


The inclination for shopping venkatgiri sarees was an impulsive force inside my mind so I got best option to search a  handloom wholesale shop so that it was easy for me to select the best one out of many.At last SRI BALAJI SAREE HOUSE derived my attention to went inside there and my further search began. Lots of collections of silk and varieties of cotton with wide ranges available there. I confused with an uncertain opinion.It took so many hours for final selections.
A beautiful small village exhibiting a charm that will leave you completely awe-inspired.I was lucky to have a glance of that so ethnicity and rustic view of the village. It was a compulsion for everybody who went there to collect silk sarees.The incredible handicrafts are undoubtedly contributed in the arena of  fashion world of culture which no other things will replace
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