Gathering Threads

Eight years ago, sariKNOTsari was not a place. It was a reaction—to waste, to frustration, to a quiet sense that clothing should feel different than this. Tomorrow, we open the doors to something t...

Closer to The Heart of "Perfection"

Wabi-sabi has been sitting with me differently lately. I didn’t set out to write about it. Or even to understand it more deeply. If anything, it feels like something I’ve known for a long time, but...

The Sermon No One Needed

We started the livestream talking about silk, as we usually do. At some point the conversation wandered outward — into kindness, curiosity, and the strange tension that seems to be creeping into ev...

Cut, Colour, Clarity, and CHARACTER

Every piece of silk we work with began its life decades ago as a sari. Someone chose that fabric. Someone wore it through ordinary days and important ones. The silk moved through time before it eve...

What Makes it Art?

Since the arrival of the Pepin Designs coats to our store, I have been thinking about what actually makes something art.

Who is the Arbiter of Classy?

Ironically, I had made the issue of wearing colour into a black-and-white scenario. As though bright meant brave. As though neutral meant hiding. As though authenticity required saturation. But thi...

Still Blooming

I went from wanting to vomit to crying, and then the fixer part of me tried to take over — the part that jumps in when something feels unbearable and immediately starts asking what can be done. But...

Wearing vs. Styling (and Where I Land)

Because what these videos really suggest is that there are only two options for women my age: you’re either a 50-year-old who looks like she hasn’t tried at all, or a 50-year-old who’s clearly work...

The Frequency We Carry

Sometimes the smallest gestures carry the strongest frequency — a bowl of soup, a steady smile, a moment of care that quietly shifts everything.

Getting Dressed as a Way Back to Nature

There’s something deeply emotional about finding that print — the one whose vibrant greens remind you of a forest you used to play in, or whose red recalls the first fall leaf you ever picked up as...