Kedareswari Design & Studio
Hand-painted Sarees & More · Guntur, AP
“I don’t paint patterns. I paint the drape as it will fall on her shoulder.”Kedareswari Rachabathuni — Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
“I don’t paint patterns. I paint the drape as it will fall on her shoulder.”
Born and raised in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, Kedareswari has spent twenty years in design. Her formal training began through Concept ID, the studio of Sirisha Surya, working across Vijayawada, Guntur, and Hyderabad. It was there she learned to think about how art lives inside a life, not just on a canvas.
Over seven years she built a hand-painting practice entirely by word of mouth. She works freehand, in fabric-safe pigment, building figures in layers across multiple sittings. Select pieces carry raised gold-thread relief and hand-set kundan stones, Tanjore tradition.
She holds an MBA, manages every commission with clear timelines and honest conversations, and is a mother of two grown-up children — both engineers — who grew up watching her paint.
A conversation first. The occasion, the fabric, the story you want the piece to carry. Nothing is sketched until this is understood.
The motif is drawn freehand onto the cloth in pencil. Every figure, border, and bloom placed by hand, by eye.
Hand-painted in fabric-safe colour, layer by layer. Faces and jewellery are always last, when the ground has fully settled.
Natural drying between every layer. This is where the timeline lives. Some pieces take a single sitting; some take a fortnight.
Where the piece calls for it, raised gold-thread relief and kundan stones are added by hand. Then the border, the finish, and the studio signature.
Tell us the occasion, the fabric, the story you want the piece to carry. Kedareswari replies personally within 24 hours, before a single stroke is painted.
“I will be in touch within 24 hours.”
— Kedareswari