State of 'wow'...

Place : Handloom expo, Bandra reclamation... Time : Around 3.30 pm... State of mind : Wow, what to buy, what to leave, eyeing beautiful handwoven fabrics, handpainted sarees and suits, wanting them all, state of complete confusion... When i decided to go there, i never thought that it would just captivate me... but there it was - all so beautiful and inviting... the colours, the threads, the designs, the mistakes in the fabrics thats the true identification of it being handwoven... Every pattern has a story to tell about its origin, the state to which it belongs... it has an identity... you look at the style of an ikkat and you can make out whether its a paithani from maharashtra or an ikkat from orissa... they were all there - the silks and tussers and chanderis and cottons whne you count the fabric; kanjeevarams, paithanis, calcuttis, baandhnis, kashmiri; some were handwoven and some handpainted with madhubani paintings... looking at them i felt that they all had complete right to be in my wardrobe and not lying here waiting for others to appreciate them and may be buy them... i just wanted to be amidst them- looking at every piece in detail, appreciating the weaver's job done in making them, and gaze them with a look of 'i want it all'... am gonna sleep with all of them in my head and may be even my dream will have a quality of a 'tohfa' song (jeetendra and jayaprada) and instead of the colourful matkas there will be sarees galore...