Ilakkiya Machine Chikan-Style Salwar Set

A chikan-style all-over is the one pattern where machine work has a genuine advantage: the repeat is dead even across the whole panel, which by hand would take a month and cost eight times as much. We are explicit that this is machine work in a chikan idiom, not Lucknow hand chikankari — the studio does not sell one as the other. How it is made Digitised jaali and butta repeat, run on cotton silk with a light stabiliser so the fabric keeps its drape after cleaning. What it suits Summer everyday wear, office, travel. Dry-clean it, like everything else the studio makes.

Each piece is worked by hand, so slight irregularities are part of it, not a defect.

Digitised jaali and butta repeat, run on cotton silk with a light stabiliser so the fabric keeps its drape after cleaning.

Summer everyday wear, office, travel. Dry-clean it, like everything else the studio makes.

1. 1.Design & measurement confirmation — 2 working days
2. 2.Fabric sourced, daylight photo approved by you — 2 working days
3. 3.On the frame — the heart of the 5–7 working-day window
4. 4.Finishing, lining & quality check — 3 working days
5. 5.Dispatch — insured courier, 3–5 days in transit (transit is extra, not working days)

Payment in full confirms your order — it books the frame and buys the material. Cancel with a full refund any time before we cut the fabric — once cutting or embroidery begins, the payment is not refundable. Payment terms

Insured courier across India, 3–5 days after dispatch, charged at actuals. Within Chennai you can collect from the T. Nagar studio — we prefer a studio fitting for heavy bridal orders. We do not currently ship internationally.

Country of origin: India — worked at our T. Nagar, Chennai studio. Shipping policy

Made-to-measure pieces are not returnable — they are cut against your body. What we do promise in writing: one free alteration within 15 days of delivery for anything on our side, and a loose stone re-fixed free for 6 months. Once a blouse is cut, a neckline or back cannot be made shallower, and a heavily embroidered panel cannot be let out. Full policy

• Dry-clean only. Never machine wash, never soak, never hand-wash. Water dulls zari, tarnishes zardozi wire and can rust the metal in kundan settings.
• Tell your dry-cleaner it is hand embroidery with metal work and stones, and ask for gentle solvent cleaning with the work protected. Avoid cleaners who press the piece flat under a machine.
• For a small mark, dab — do not rub — with a dry white cloth, and take it to the cleaner rather than treating it at home.
• Iron only from the reverse, on low heat, with a cotton cloth between the iron and the fabric.
• Never iron over stones, kundan or 3-D motifs at all. Press the plain areas around them.
• Turn the blouse inside out before storing, so the work faces inward.

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