World most expensive sari – What ingredients can make it

A scintillating beauty bedazzled with 12 valuable stones and embossed with 11 celebrated paintings of Raja Ravi Verma, the world’ most expensive sari comes with an estimated cost of USD100000. Acknowledged by Guinness Book of World Record as ‘the world’s most expensive sari’, it has been designed by the handloom weavers of city-based textile house ‘The Chennai Silks’.

Portraying Verma’s pieces of art, the sari features his famous work ‘Lady Musicians’, depicting women choir from diverse enriching milieu. Bordered with other 10 paintings by Ravi Verma, the sari is the perfect tribute to the great artist. Adding to its lure are the trinkets made of jewels like platinum, diamond, gold, emerald, sapphire, yellow sapphire, pearl and coral, which embellish the women featured in the paintings is designed with the help of intricate hand woven process.

According to the Director of The Chennai Silks, Chandran it took 4,680 man-hours for a team of highly-skilled weavers to complete the work using a double wrap. It claims to be the first silk sari manufactured with 7440 jacquard hooks and 66,794 cards. He interprets, “The sari, which had entered the Limca Book of Records, will be a unique drape for a bride.”