Screen printing on saree after years

Always its fun with screen printing. When I learnt how to do screen printing, I had used it for makeover of sarees. With screen printing and embroidery an ordinary saree looks like a designer saree. As I was busy with jewelry designing last year so could not work with screen printing.
 This is my friend's saree, which she had given to design quite  sometime back. She wanted screen printing on this saree:

This is a simple hand-loom cotton saree in mehandi color, with zari border. The border has small paisley designs, so I selected paisley motifs to print on this.

This design is not the traditional paisley, little modified to give a trendy look. I printed these paisley designs along the border of the saree with dull gold color. First I thought of using bright gold color, dropped the idea, since it would have looked very bright.

All along the border and near the pallu I screen printed these motifs. The pallu is green with gold color lines, so left it as it is:

Hope this is come out good and my friend likes it. Planning to work on another saree with screen printing. I will share about the same in my next post.
Till then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Make over of an ordinary saree- Screen printing again

One of my clients had given a very ordinary saree for make over. Here it is :

 I tried to convince her a lot , not to go for make over of this saree, because that would be expensive and it might not look good also. But as it was last gift from her parents, she wanted to wear this saree. So she insisted for make over. 

It was really difficult for me. This is very normal saree, heavy lace won't look good for this. I went for normal zari lace. Attached it along the borders.Always I use screen printing for make over. Printed with big rose prints, as it is matching with lace.

 

 

And printed small motifs along on Pallu. Still I was not happy with the look, tried 3d glitter paint on the motifs and attached some kundans.

 

Closer view of the motif:

 

She is happy to with the work, at least she can wear this occasionally  . 

Soon working on writing on a series of sarees of India. In next post share about Kantha saree of West Bengal . 

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Saree Design with Lace and Screen printing

This is again an attempt to repair my sister's saree which was spoiled by me. I don't know everytime I take her saree, either the design won't come good or it will be spoiled. :(.

Its a lovely silk saree with unique color combination, light bottle Green with Gold border. While giving this my sister warned  me many times not to spoil this saree.
In spite of all her warning I spoiled this. I tried with machine embroidery. At that time I had not learned  the machine embroidery properly. Uhh look at my guts. The result was as below, very bad very bad!

 

Somehow I had to repair this, otherwise my sister would demand 10 times more than this saree. So to cover my fault, I used brocade cloth and laces. Made the lace with brocade cloth and attached along the border. And Brown and Rust colored borders on the both the sides of the brocade  border. Of course, screen printing is best method to make the cloth beautiful and hide the odds! Painted the border with Paisley designs with Gold and Green color. 

 

And on the Pallu, big Paisley designs in Gold and Green pearl color.

 

I was quite happy with  the designs. But my sister, same old comment "You always use my saree for practising. By spoiling my sarees you are becoming perfect!". TRUE! :)

Recently could not work on crochet. Soon share about a colorful crochet afghan .

Until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Kerala Cotton saree screen printed

I've been very busy since last month. So could not work on any saree, all the colors were sitting idle :-).  For Dasara I had 2 days holidays. So screen printed on two sarees, one of them is Kerala Cotton saree.

 

On the border printed with Ambari designs and and on the body also printed small motifs of the same designs.

 

Closer view of the motif:

 

Another one is Black color South cotton, with Orange border, printed with two colors:

 

Here is the motif: 

 

And for the  pleats, flower motifs:

 

Still orders from my friends are pending. Hope to complete those soon. Once completed definitely share those designs with you. 

Until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Pink saree with screen printing

This is also my friend's saree. Pink with maroon border.
I used dull gold and maroon combination for the saree. Along the border printed paisley designs

 and on the pallu printed flower motifs.

Attached small kundans on it,

 

I struggled a lot to decide on the color of the prints. The saree has silvery gold color, which very difficult to make with screen printing colors. Then went ahead with dull Gold as it will give the contrast effect of silver and gold. Hope I have taken the right decision.What do you say?

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Cotton saree with Screen printing

This is a Magenta cotton Saree with Green border.
Screen printed with big motifs of "Dancing Lady", along the border. I have not used any other motifs as I wanted the dancing lady motif to be prominent.
Here it is :

Closer view of the motif:

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Makeover of a Saree

This is my Attige's (Sister in law) saree, plain Blue silk like saree with Golden border.

She wanted very flashy design for this saree. Though I don't like flashy , I had to go with her wish. So printed big circular motifs along the border.

Attached Kundans on the motifs and Golden color Chamkis on the body of the saree.

Near Pallu , printed the motifs all over the body and attached Chamkis and Kundans.Attached small Blue Brocade material border and lace along the saree border.

Closer View of the motif

The Pallu is enriched with  Kundan and Readymade motifs:

Brocade blouse to match with it:

 






I have sent it to my Attige and waiting for her response. :-). Hope she likes the makeover.

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Screen printing on a silk saree

I've used screen printing to make over ,many old sarees. This is a new silk saree, on which I used screen printing.

This is my sister's saree. When I saw this saree, I liked it very much . Some creative idea flashed in my mind.When I told her about my idea, her first reaction was big "Noooooo!". :-) Expected! Because already I had spoilt two sarees of her.:-) I begged in front of her, but she was reluctant. I promised her that if I spoil this saree, I would buy her two srees. Then unwillingly, she gave this saree. Still she had doubts!

While printing on this saree, I took utmost care, as if its saree of any Goddess and if its spoilt I would  be cursed by the Goddess :-) 

The result is below :

I used one of my favourite Peacock motifs. I have already used this motif to design a dress. In between printed peacock feather motif designs.

And on the Pallu again Peacock feather motif design.

Here is the closer look of the peacock motif

My sister is happy to see this. She is planning to add some Kundans on this. She tried to find out mistakes, so that she could get two sarees from me. But could not :-)

Designing a "Tie and Dye" saree with lace and embroidered motifs. Hope will be completed by next weekend. share that in the coming post,

Till then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Old saree made new with Screen printing

This is an old saree. I used screen printing and some kundan to give it a new look.
On border I have printed flower motifs and inside I have printed paisley designs. Attached kundan on each flower.

One more screen printed saree

This saree is quite an old saree. I screen printed on it and attached some readymade Kundan motifs.

Screen printing

Last weekend I learnt screen printing. I printed these motifs on my mother's old saree.