Your first Danyah saree
Most of our patrons spend two weeks choosing. Here is how to spend them well — a kit, a starter, a Katan, an heirloom. One ladder, four steps.
Choose the rung that suits your year
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Tier 1
Start with the Test Drape Kit
₹1,500 · credit applies
Feel the silk, see the zari, watch the drape — all for ₹1,500. Five swatches from our Madanpura looms, a real-silver zari card, a burn-test guide. Credit applies to any saree above ₹25,000.
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Tier 2
A first Banarasi, woven for everyday
₹15,000 – ₹30,000
Pre-draped cotton or cotton-silk — light, breathable, ready in sixty seconds. The Banarasi you wear to office, to a temple, to a Friday dinner that turns into Saturday.
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Tier 3
An everyday-luxury Katan
₹30,000 – ₹1,00,000
Real silver-gilded zari, kadhwa motifs cut on the loom, two-hundred-hour weaving time. The saree that suits a reception, an Eid lunch, a fifteenth wedding anniversary.
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Tier 4
A bridal saree the world has never seen
₹1,00,000 and above
Commissioned bridal kadhwa-jangla, four-hundred to twelve-hundred hours, four-generation atelier in Madanpura. Signed by the weaver on the muslin sleeve and the certificate.
Speak to the atelier →
Three quiet things to do next
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Step 1
Take the Saree Finder quiz
Six questions about your year, your wardrobe, and the room you want to walk into. Returns a shortlist of three to five sarees in two minutes.
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Step 2
Save three to five sarees to your Trousseau
A private collection you can return to. Compare side-by-side, share the link with your mother, your sister, the stylist your cousin used last winter.
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Step 3
Ask the concierge
Forty-minute video consultation with a stylist who knows every loom on our list. Complimentary, no purchase needed, weekends included.
Book a consultation →
THE ATELIER PROMISE
Free worldwide shipping
On orders above ₹25,000 · DHL Express, fully insured
30-day Heirloom Returns
Worn once is fine. The atelier absorbs the loom slot.
Pay in three, interest-free
Split any saree across three months at checkout
Pay on delivery
Available within India for orders under ₹5,000
How a first Danyah saree finds its woman
Verified buyers · all reviews collected within thirty days of delivery
SIX QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
What the first-time patron asks before ordering
The atelier ships to forty-one countries. These are the questions the concierge answers most often before a first saree is chosen.
Our looms are in Madanpura, a mohalla in Varanasi where Banarasi weaving has lived since the seventeenth century. Our atelier — where the silk is cut, the pre-drape is stitched, the certificate is hand-written — is in Bandra, Mumbai. Our concierge writes to you from there. We have a flagship weaving studio in Varanasi for patrons who would like to visit the looms; bridal commissions are encouraged to.
We are an atelier. The looms in Madanpura belong to families we have worked with for four generations — twenty-three named master weavers across seven collectives. The naksha is drawn for our sarees. The silk is dyed in our palette. The kadhwa is cut on our orders. The weaver is named on the certificate that ships with every saree, alongside the GI registration number. We do not buy from Surat wholesalers, and we do not sell powerloom Banarasi under any sub-line. If you want to verify a saree before you order, our concierge will send photographs of the loom it is currently on.
Every pre-drape we ship is cut to your measurements at our Mumbai atelier — petticoat, side zip, pallu anchor, blouse, fall-and-pico. If the fit needs adjusting on arrival, we re-stitch for free within sixty days of delivery; you ship it back on a prepaid DHL waybill and it returns in two weeks. For a stock saree that simply does not suit you, the thirty-day Heirloom Return applies — worn once is fine, full refund minus the stitch charge.
Stock pre-drapes ship in seven to ten days from order — that is the time it takes the atelier to cut and stitch the saree to your measurements. Custom commissions (kadhwa Katan, bridal jangla) ship in three to fourteen months on the loom plus two weeks of pre-drape stitching. Once dispatched, DHL Express delivers in two to three working days within India and five to eight working days internationally. Duties are prepaid for the United States, the United Kingdom, the UAE, Canada, Australia, and Singapore.
Yes, within India, on orders under ₹5,000 — that is mostly the Test Drape Kit and a handful of cotton daywear pieces. Above ₹5,000, the courier risk and the loom-slot commitment make cash-on-delivery uneconomic; we offer pay-in-three (three interest-free instalments at checkout) and pay-in-six for sarees above ₹50,000 as the alternatives. Pay-in-three is approved instantly; pay-in-six is approved within twelve hours by the concierge.
Yes. Every patron is welcome to a complimentary forty-minute video consultation with one of our four atelier stylists. They will ask about your wardrobe, the occasions on your calendar, the sarees your mother and grandmother have draped, the room you want to walk into. They will then walk you through three to five sarees that fit — on our site, on the looms currently running, or on the next drop. The session is unhurried, weekends included. Book it on the atelier appointment page.
The atelier behind the welcome
The looms in our Madanpura mohalla have been singing since my great-grandfather strung the first warp in 1923. The weavers we work with today are the fourth generation of the families he taught — twenty-three named master weavers, seven collectives, all named on the certificates that ship with every saree.
A real Katan with kadhwa motifs takes them between two hundred and four hundred hours. A bridal kadhwa-jangla, eight to fourteen months. We do not subsidise that work with mill cloth or imported imitation zari. We pay the weavers a fair wage that reflects what a handloom Banarasi actually costs to make — typically half to three-quarters of the retail price goes to the weaver and the supporting craftspeople in the cluster.
This is the workshop you are joining when you order your first Danyah saree. The pre-drape is the way we hand it across an ocean.