Anavila

Name: Anavila
Address: Dhairya apartments, 11th Road, Khar West, IN
Telephone: +919560243838

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mindful creation leads to mindful consumption. Anavila translates to “pure” in Sanskrit. Our home line offers beautiful options for your living space.

And as the name suggests pure sustainable luxurious textiles are what makes us unique. India has a rich tradition of craft and textile and this is what inspires us to create fabrics so gorgeous and luxurious that falling in love is but inevitable. Our story began a few years ago when Anavila was chosen to manage a CRAFT CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, by Ministry of rural development, Government of India in collaboration with NIFT, New Delhi as a Project Consultant and Design Studio Manager. A graduate from National Institute of fashion Technology in New Delhi ,India; Anavila started her career as a designer for leading fashion brands in India. A few years into the industry and she got drawn to rich heritage of Indian crafts and textiles. When on the project Anavila interacted with artisans across the length of the country. The beauty and immense possibilities trapped in these far out remote areas stayed with Anavila even after the project was concluded. And a contemporary take on Traditional Indian Textiles was born with Anavila. Over the last few years Anavila has created a design vocabulary that is contemporary and on-the-go-chic. Understated elegance that is not overtly embellished is what makes our sarees different. One can choose from a range of exquisite cottons and silks and linen sarees, lovely hand crafted which respect the environment and nature, while remaining true to the craft and the creator. Following fair trade practices and constantly working on improving the life of our artisans is important to us.

23/09/2026

Green might be the most experienced colour in human history.

Though the first green pigments were not very common in early human history, green was always present in abundance in nature. Green is the colour of life; it appears wherever life takes root on Earth. It was the colour of the wild—from food and shelter to herbs, plants, and some of the earliest materials humans used for clothing. Green was among the first resources surrounding human life, and perhaps that long familiarity with life and abundance is also why, subconsciously, it continues to evoke a sense of relief and safety.

One of the earliest green pigments, malachite—a copper mineral—was processed by early Egyptians by at least the 4th millennium BCE. The Met, for example, has a Predynastic Egyptian palette dated 3650–3300 BCE with remnants of green pigment. Across different cultures and periods, green came to be associated with fertility, life, spring, youth, spirituality and the supernatural, and continues to hold significance in many indigenous and traditional cultures around the world.

Green also has an interesting history in textile dyeing. Despite being everywhere in nature, green was not always easy to reproduce on cloth, because very few plants could provide a reliable green dye that would stay on textiles. Green was therefore often created through a combination of blue and yellow—the cloth would first be dyed blue, often with woad or indigo, and then yellow.

Yet somehow, green became one of the most enduring colours in textile dyeing, clothing and fashion history. It continues to find its way into the creative processes of designers across the world, particularly for those of us who continue to look to nature as a source of colour, material and inspiration.

Our Malli Kili collection was inspired by the landscape of the temple city of Madurai, often framed in shades of green, white and blue. These colours became a reflection of the very landscape we encountered in Madurai.

Seen here on Gurleen Gambhir Khakhar , our Malli Moggu Linen Sari draws from the age-old Jamdani technique, with abstract watercolour floral motifs and handspun linen yarns in shades of green.

19/09/2026

Colours often communicate meaning, sometimes carrying the identity and deep symbolism of a community and culture. This is especially true of red in India, widely associated with vitality, fertility, femininity, auspiciousness, and festivals. From temples to households, it holds a special presence, often representing feminine energy and finding its place in marriage rituals and other cultural traditions.

The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts has explored the visual symbolism of red in Indian folk art and rural cultural practices, including through its research The Power of Colours, looking at red in Hindu identity, religious symbolism, and customs. The Metropolitan Museum has also documented the history of Indian red dyes, including madder, Indian mulberry (āl), chay root, and alum mordants, offering insight into how deeply the colour is woven into our clothing and textiles.

And, even without knowing any of this, a person can still subconsciously find red fascinating. Maybe it is because red has always been part of our story. It was the first colours we found in nature, used for dyes and decorating textiles for ages. It has travelled through our clothing ever since, finding its place in celebrations, festivals, royalty, and the divine.

Indian festivities have long held a close relationship with the colour red. In that spirit, we curated some of our favourite red pieces from our collections, each developed through a slow process of conscious decisions, fabric development, and beautiful rural treatments of embroidery, zari, and much more. Perhaps, like our instinctive human tendency, we too find ourselves returning to something that feels exclusive, meaningful, and festive.

14/09/2026

Ganpati, also called Vinayak, Ganesha, or Lambodar, might be one of the most familiar presences among Indian gods. For many of us, his image comes with a certain childhood familiarity — a little idol at home, a calendar, a festival, or simply a face we have grown up seeing everywhere.

His appearance has travelled far and wide — through folk traditions, religious art, literature, cinema, animation and popular culture. Along the way, he has taken different names, narratives, forms and even different spiritual essences, yet somehow remains instantly recognisable.

In India, Ganesha is the remover of obstacles and the god of new beginnings, wisdom and prosperity. But he is also playful, curious, mischievous and sometimes stubborn. From Bal Vinayak to Rakta Ganpati, he can be gentle and childlike in one form and fierce in another.

And his story does not remain within India. Through religious networks and the spread of Buddhism, Ganesha travelled into different cultural worlds. In Chinese Buddhist traditions, he appears as Vinayaka, while in Japan he became Kangiten / Shōten, with striking representations of two elephant-headed figures embracing.

His face continues to travel through manga, cinema, television and animation too — from Record of Ragnarok and American Gods to My Friend Ganesha and artworks such as Abanindranath Tagore’s Ganesh Janani.

Maybe that is what makes Ganesha so familiar.

He can be a god, a child, a friend, a protector, a troublemaker, a symbol of prosperity or simply a face from our childhood.

As these 10 days of Ganpati begin, we celebrate him with you and share little stories, images and representations we find along the way — across cultures, communities, religious traditions and pop culture.

Happy Ganesh Chaturthi!

05/09/2026

Red is a colour of identity, of self-representation, love and desire.
There was a time when red was not an abundant colour. It had to be found, extracted and carefully made. Even in nature, it appeared in little traces, placed almost deliberately among softer, muted tones. Perhaps this is why, across civilisations, red was reserved for the sacred and the significant—for gods, rituals, kingdoms and the language of luxury. It was always chosen, and carefully placed.
Some of the earliest reds available to us came from red ochre, the earth itself. Over time, we learnt to coax the colour from flowers, roots and mud, slowly turning what was found in the landscape into something we could carry on our bodies.
Red has travelled alongside human civilisation for thousands of years. One of the strongest early traces comes from Mohenjo-daro, where a fragment of cotton is believed to have been dyed red with madder, using alum as a mordant—a quiet evidence of how carefully humans had begun to understand colour.
From the red earth and pottery of early settlements to the traces left across the Ganga basin, the colour has continued to find its way through our histories.
In India, even the language of red carries this sense of feeling. The Sanskrit root rañj means to colour, to dye, but also to be moved, affected, filled with passion. From it come rāga—colour, passion, melody—and raṅga—colour and the world of performance; while rakta, meaning red and blood, carries the same root.
Perhaps this is why red has always felt so alive here—a colour that does not simply surround us, but colours us from within. In love and devotion, it becomes an expression of feeling at its most intense, when emotion has completely transformed us.
From weddings to temples, rituals to celebrations, red continues to hold a place in our everyday and sacred lives—a colour of love, spirituality, womanhood and new beginnings.

Image Sources : Google Art & Culture

29/08/2026

अ से अनाविला: 𝘈 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺⁣
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𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝟏: 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐫⁣
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My first linen sari began here, in Shantipur. It marked not only the origin of the brand, but the quiet, parallel evolution of the weaver alongside it. Each time I travelled to the village in West Bengal to review developments on the loom, I stayed with Sarkar’s family, a home gently held together by the many footprints of women.⁣
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The tin roof of their home carried the etchings of those stays- the soft fall of leaves, the persistent song of crickets, the low hum of a modest table fan through the night. Over time, these became familiar sounds of fieldwork, folding themselves into the rhythm of making.⁣
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There is a file I return to; its sheets yellowed, edges gently crumbling at the corners, carrying age the way old cloth holds its folds. Within it live my earliest drawings: design notes worked out with the weavers, tentative scribbles of development, fragments of colour. Ink and paper quiet, the most potent creators of identity. Tying, connecting, knotting one thought to the next, one season to the one before it.⁣
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This is where the brand began to find its hands.⁣
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Photographic Documentation by :⁣ Pranoy Sarkar
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24/08/2026

Gifting, perhaps, is one of the quiet ways in which we remember each other.
A small thought carried home.
Something picked while thinking of a familiar laugh, a favourite colour, or simply the person who makes life feel a little more like home.
Because celebrations have always been made of these things—the people we gather with, the laughter we share, and the small gestures that say I thought of you.

This season, we invite you to discover La Fête—a collection of gifts thoughtfully chosen for the people with whom we share our lives.
Pieces made with care, for moments of giving, gathering and celebrating.

Available at our stores and on our website, surrounded by the warmth of marigolds and the familiar joy of the festive season.

22/08/2026

Our spaces slowly taking on the colours of the season.

Draped in festive warmth, with the earthy scent of marigolds in the air and little corners thoughtfully put together for the days of celebration ahead.

Marigolds find their way through our stores, hanging softly, gathering in corners, and bringing with them the familiar joy of a season we know through laughter, sharing, flowers and togetherness.

With the festivities around the corner, we are putting together beautiful gift ideas for you and your loved ones, little things chosen to be shared, remembered and cherished.

We invite you to our spaces, to wander through the colours, textures and stories, and find something special for the people who make your world.

21/08/2026

There is an old story of Midas, a king whose touch could turn everything to gold.

He wished for gold, and was granted his wish. Until, in his joy, he touched his own daughter.

It is said that this story of the golden touch gave the marigold one of its many associations with gold, especially after Nathaniel Hawthorne’s *The Golden Touch* in 1851.

But the story of the marigold is more than that, the flower crossed oceans and, sometime around 350 years ago, found its way to India through the Portuguese and European maritime routes. And here, it found something more than new soil. It found belonging.

It adapted to our seasons, our rituals, our celebrations and our ways of worship so naturally that today, it is almost easy to forget that the genda was not native to India.

Somewhere along the way, it became a temple flower. A festive flower. A flower strung into torans, offered in prayer, carried into homes and woven into the everyday rituals of life.

Perhaps that is what makes the marigold so beautiful. It travelled a long way to become something that feels as though it has always belonged here.

As the festive season arrives, we wanted to celebrate this familiar flower in our own little way.

A simple installation of genda at our Mehrauli store, bringing together colour, memory, ritual and the quiet abundance of the season.

13/08/2026

When we live far from home, we carry seeds. And slowly we begin to plant a garden. Only this garden is made of people, not trees. People who, like trees, have their own underground ways of finding you. They know when to reach out, when to nourish, when to bring a little sunshine, rain or oxygen into your world. They give you roots when we feel untethered. They give you branches to lean on. And together, you create a wild little place where you can be strange, be entirely yourself and believe in impossible things.

Maybe that’s what we carry with us. A little bit of home. A little bit of everywhere we’ve been. And, if we’re lucky, a whole garden of people.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐖𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲
𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘢 𝘗𝘳𝘦-𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 2026

For intimate celebrations with the people who become our world

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Dhairya Apartments, 11th Road
Khar West

Telephone

+919560243838

Website

https://anavila.com/

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