Sari Bari

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

The idea caught on...here is another wall display

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Sari Bari Web Launch OFFICIAL!!

The Sari Bari website officially launched today! Check it out! In six months you will be able to purchase sari bari products on the web!!

please visit www.saribari.com

Thanks for your continued prayers and support of our ladies on the road to freedom!

Monday, October 01, 2007

Snippets of life at Sari Bari

Photos Courtesy of Courtney Steever, amazing photogapher and friend of Sari Bari

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Sari Blanket Display idea!!

love this idea...you can do it too!!

Someone cool who owns a Sari Blanket!

Thursday, June 14, 2007

It's official

Sari Bari has new cloth tags and name tags for the blankets!! this i a long time coming and a big sign of progress!

Friday, May 18, 2007

New shipment of blankets

if you want a blanket you better email melinda quick...she just sold 30 in day and she only has 30 more!! So COME AND GET EM!! We love that you love the blankets and our ladies!! The next batch will not get there till the end of june!

Monday, March 12, 2007

More sari bags for your review

we are going to start making bags and will try to have them ready for sale in june 2007. we are going to choose three styles and see how those sell before exanding much futher. probably 2 short handled bags and one long handled bags. we will probably name the bags after the ladies for instance "the basanti". let us know what you think of these.

the colors of sari bari

Sari Bari India

The faces of Sari Bari are many and the stories are heartbreaking. Sari Bari is the women of Kalighat's and Sonagacchi's red light areas who have taken the brave step into a new life. Life at Sari bari holds the promise of diginity, respect, and way of life that was never before possible for many of these women.

What is a Sari Blanket?

The Sari Blanket is not a new idea. What we call a Sari Blanket in India and Bangladesh is called Katha (K-aa-th-a) and has ben made for generations in the villages and slums of india. Poor women would save their old and worn out Sari’s and stitch them together with a small tight stitch called the Katha stitch and that is ultimately where the blankets received their name. The resourceful poor took something old and made it new. They took an old Sari and made something beautiful and useful to their families. We hope for a similar transformation in the lives of women working at Sari Bari.

How is it made?

The Sari Blanket is made out five layers of Saris. We too take the old and make it new by using old vintage saris from all over India for not only the outside but the inside of our blankets. The five layers of Sari’s are then stitched together with a stitch called Katha, basically a simple quilting stitch. It’s length is a little less than half the length of a full Sari and measures at approximately 80 inches long. Each blanket is put together by hand and then hand stitched. Each Sari Blanket is unique and there are no two blankets exactly alike. Additionally, each woman has own unique style and stitch which means each blanket varies slightly within the quality standards of Sari Bari.
Sari Bari is not just selling you a beautiful handmade vintage Sari Blanket we are selling you a story. A story that we want you tell you friends and family…a story of new life, a story of freedom, a story that means hope in one of the world most hopeless places.
Each blanket has a name…the name of a woman whose freedom you are now apart of with your purchase of a Sari Blanket.