Looking for some serious bargains on lace and sari borders? Head straight to the market near Santa Cruz (W) station in Mumbai.
It's a treasure trove of fabrics ranging from simple and delicate whites to Kashmiri-embroidered borders. Bang opposite the station is a line of shoe shops, behind which starts this specialised market of small wooden shops and a few air-conditioned ones. Make your way through the crowded lanes — packed with fierce female shoppers trying to find match for their new saris among the embellished borders — and explore right up to SV Road. Thousands of heavily embellished sari borders and lace in silk, cotton and velvet are sourced from Surat, Jaipur and Kolkata. Some shops retail all types of surface embellishments.
It is the perfect setting for comparing prices and bargaining. If vintage is your thing, there are a handful of shops and street vendors who buy and sell old and used sari borders and antique zari, at a fraction of the original cost. Shopping for lace is easy here. Mix and match and take a cue from designers showing at Mumbai fashion week to tailor your own creations by combining two or more types of borders, trims or laces in vibrant and bold colours and patterns into a single 'statement' border. The borders are so elaborate and dazzling, you can create entire sari blouse backs using left-over sari borders or lace.
What you'll find at the market:
- Floral cut-work border embroidered with a machine
- Assorted machine-embroidered trims
- Floral pattern on cotton
- Sequin and thread-work on cotton
- Hand-embroidered peeta work
- Leather finish with sequinned lace
- Hand-embroidered threadwork lace
- Peeta-work lace with hand embroidery
- Geometric pattern border
- Cross-stitch border
- Kashmiri-embroidered border
- Machine-embroidered ribbon
- Warli pattern border
- Sequinned cotton trim #
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