{"id":5220,"date":"2015-11-24T10:53:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2015-12-02T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T16:24:19","slug":"the-whole-nine-yards-telling-the-story-of-the-unstitched-garment-from-south-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/the-whole-nine-yards-telling-the-story-of-the-unstitched-garment-from-south-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cwhole nine yards\u201d &#8212; telling the story of the unstitched garment from South Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_61.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5232\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_61.jpg\" alt=\"Jaya and Lakshmi in their booth at the folk craft area\" width=\"450\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_61.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_61-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest Blog by Lakshmi Narayan, Auburndale, MA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Maggie Holtzberg asked me if I would participate in the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Lowellfolkfestival.org\" target=\"_blank\">Lowell Folk Festival<\/a>, I was excited to be able to share my fascination for the \u201cunstitched garment\u201d with visitors to this unique festival. It has been fifteen years since I moved to Massachusetts from India. While living in India, I had been deeply entrenched in working with hand woven, hand block printed, embroidered fabrics, for close to 15 years. I still continue to stay connected with craft communities in India and keep looking for ways to share my love of South Asian textiles with communities here in the US.<\/p>\n<p>On the day before the festival I pulled out all my favorite saris from my wardrobe &#8212; <em>Ikats, Jamdanis, Benaresi, Mysore<\/em> silks and <em>Kanchipurams<\/em>. To this collection I added a suitcase full of incredible hand spun, hand woven contemporary saris from &#8220;Taan Baan&#8221; a label well respected and known for revivals, and all my books on saris including the one I contributed to, <em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Saris-Tradition-Rta-Kapur-Chishti\/dp\/8174363742\/ref=sr_1_1\/187-1470318-2026818?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1448306493&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=saris+tradition+and+beyond\" target=\"_blank\">Saris: Tradition and Beyond<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_fabric.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5238\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_fabric.jpg\" alt=\"South Asian sari textile\" width=\"450\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_fabric.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_fabric-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I loaded my little Volkswagen beetle on the morning of the festival. On my way to Lowell, I stopped to pick up Jaiya Aiyer, a truly remarkable young girl who was introduced to me a few months earlier as a student of Indian dance. The plan was for us to demonstrate the folding and wrapping of the sari and discuss the ways the unstitched garment could be worn in myriad elegant ways.<\/p>\n<p>Jaiya had worn the sari as a costume for her Bharatanatyam dance recitals in the past and was very familiar with the regular six yard wearing style.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5267\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_Jaiya-in-costume.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5267\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_Jaiya-in-costume.jpg\" alt=\"Jaiya in Bharatanatyam costume. Photo by Michael Walz Photography\" width=\"400\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_Jaiya-in-costume.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_Jaiya-in-costume-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaiya in Bharatanatyam costume. Photo by Michael Walz Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Jaiya got into the car I was thrilled to see her wearing a beautiful traditional \u201c<em>Narayanpet<\/em>\u201d from Andra Pradesh, which she had borrowed from her mom\u2019s wardrobe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_purle-sari1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5251\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_purle-sari1.jpg\" alt=\"Jaya wearing a purple sari\" width=\"295\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_purle-sari1.jpg 295w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_purle-sari1-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 85vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As soon as we arrived at the Lowell festival we got busy hanging up the saris and stoles in our tent and putting up the posters I had made. In preparation for meeting festival goers, we continued to chat about saris &#8212; their structure and materials, the weavers and printers, the wearers and the community.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5224\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_7.jpg\" alt=\"Festival goers looking at Lakshmi and Jaya's display\" width=\"450\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_7.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_7-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I dressed the mannequin, so kindly lent to us by  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/lowe\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Lowell National Historical Park<\/a>, in a white cotton Kerala sari and our first visitors watched with amusement as I wrestled with the mannequin, to turn the skinny blond lady into a traditional South Indian \u201c<em>mohini attam<\/em>\u201d dancer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_mannequin-in-white.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5231 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_mannequin-in-white.jpg\" alt=\"Mannequindressed in a white cotton Kerala sari\" width=\"300\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_mannequin-in-white.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_mannequin-in-white-144x300.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t long before we overheard friendly chatter coming from the other end of our tent. We soon learned that our tent neighbors were Liberian Rosaline Accam Awadjie who had arrived with brightly colored Dutch wax prints fabrics for African head wraps and Qamaria Amatal-Wadud, a young woman from western Massachusetts with her fine Islamic <em>hijabs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5228\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_9.jpg\" alt=\"Roseline Accam Awadjie (left)standing behind a woman she has dressed.\" width=\"300\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_9.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_9-176x300.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5234\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_11.jpg\" alt=\"Qamaria Amatal-Wadud with her hijabs\" width=\"450\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_11.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_11-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We spent two days sharing wonderful stories and experiences with visitors explaining the wearing style they would try on, the materials, the variable textures. The way the sari is worn conveys a wealth of cultural information about an Indian woman- her religious belief, marital status, wealth, or social standing. Visitors asked several questions on rituals, customs and culture.<\/p>\n<p>These exchanges did not stop with just a greeting &#8212; something that I have experienced, having participated as a vendor of Indian hand crafts on several occasions. Here, people were interested in knowing more about the culture and story behind the cloth, the women who wore them, and the weaver who wove printed or painted them. We used the charts I had made to explain the process of hand spinning, weaving and printing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_red-sari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5253\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_red-sari.jpg\" alt=\"festival goer dress in red sari\" width=\"330\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_red-sari.jpg 330w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_red-sari-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of day, Sunday, a woman who had visited the day before came back with a sari in her hand. She had gotten it as a gift years ago and wanted to know if I knew which part of India it might be woven. \u201cI think Bengal,\u201d I told her, looking at the fine cotton thread work and indeed there was an old label stamped with a shop&#8217;s name in Bengal!<\/p>\n<p>Another enthusiast we dressed in a sari wanted photographs of herself after she been dressed with an African headwrap; by combining the two she made a unique fashion statement! Below you see Qamaria taking a photo of this woman walking past a patch of black-eyed Susans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_Qamaria-shooting-photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5260\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_Qamaria-shooting-photo1.jpg\" alt=\"Lakshmi_Qamaria shooting photo\" width=\"371\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_Qamaria-shooting-photo1.jpg 371w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_Qamaria-shooting-photo1-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 85vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both Jaiya and I enjoyed our two days of interactions and were happy to have shared the story of the unstitched garment, literally the \u201cwhole nine yards\u201d with visitors to Lowell.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_3-kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5240\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_3-kids.jpg\" alt=\"Children posing in unstitched wrapped garments\" width=\"450\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_3-kids.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lakshmi_3-kids-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blog by Lakshmi Narayan, Auburndale, MA When Maggie Holtzberg asked me if I would participate in the Lowell Folk Festival, I was excited to be able to share my fascination for the \u201cunstitched garment\u201d with visitors to this unique festival. It has been fifteen years since I moved to Massachusetts from India. While living &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/the-whole-nine-yards-telling-the-story-of-the-unstitched-garment-from-south-asia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The \u201cwhole nine yards\u201d &#8212; telling the story of the unstitched garment from South Asia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4,285,277],"tags":[808,807,288,809],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft","category-festivals","category-folk-beauty","category-public-program","tag-indian-saris","tag-satorial","tag-south-asian-culture","tag-south-asian-saris"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The \u201cwhole nine yards\u201d - telling the story of the unstitched garment from South Asia - Keepers of Tradition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.massfolkarts.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/the-whole-nine-yards-telling-the-story-of-the-unstitched-garment-from-south-asia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The \u201cwhole nine yards\u201d - telling the story of the unstitched garment from South Asia - Keepers of Tradition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Guest Blog by Lakshmi Narayan, Auburndale, MA When Maggie Holtzberg asked me if I would participate in the Lowell Folk Festival, I was excited to be able to share my fascination for the \u201cunstitched garment\u201d with visitors to this unique festival. 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