It was a fresh and lovely drawing of a mango that started Shilpa Bilimoria’s journey towards setting up her own fashion label. Shilpa entered a competition that we ran for a British Sari design in 2007. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the contest – the British Sari Story – marked the 60th anniversary […]
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The British Sari Story Education Pack (launched in 2007) has always proved very popular. It’s still fresh and full of ideas. Click here to download. Our project, The British Sari Story , looked at the sari in Britain in 2007, the 60th year after Indian independence. We ran a competition for young designers to create […]
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The British Sari Story was a competition for a British design for the sari In 2007, the year of the 60th anniversary of Indian independence, we asked people to design a sari with a radically new style, fabric and patterns reflecting life in the UK today. In other words – to use the sari as […]
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The British Sari Story exhibition, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, opened at Brent Museum in October 2007. It presented the results of a competition for a British sari, 60 years after Indian independence. Entries came from all over the country. The overall winner was Nilesh Mistry, a Mumbai-born illustrator, who moved to Harrow with his […]
Read MoreThe British Sari Story competition for a British Sari was featured at the Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace in October 2010. One of the winners was Zahra Ahmed, from Peterborough, who created this ‘mini’ sari while still at school, in her final year of A levels.Her polished and sophisticated design impressed the […]
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To coincide with The British Sari Story exhibition in Brent Museum, Brent Council funded a JC Decaux poster campaign. British Sari Story posters were posted prominently across the borough in November/December 2007. The British Sari Story was a search for a British Asian sari, 60 years after Indian independence.
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