How to maintain cotton sarees?

I like Cotton sarees very much. It is looks quiet appealing and is comfortable to wear but the problem is its maintanence. Starching and ironing is quiet difficult. Plz give some tips to maintain it and also what is used for starching ?

Hi Lakshmi,

Cotton sarees or dresses looks very elegant and nice. Though its very difficult to maintain.

One method which i follow is Prepare a gruel or kanji from Sago or jawarisi powder and dilute it with cold water . And finally add the sarees or dress materila and soak it for 5- 10 min in it. finally just try to remove the excess water and hanging it out on a shady area .

This gives me a very good crispy feeling to my sarees as well as dress.

cheers
vaidehi

In India we can get the sarees irorned right..So why dont u try that. I used to do tht.. here nobody to do tht.. So i starch thm with the kanji water.. and thn iron . Sometimes my hubby will do the ironing job

u can make kanji/starch with just plain flour i.e. maida
to prepare maida kanji
mix one cup of maida in 1 litre of cold water with out lumps and keep asode
boil 2 litres of water and while boilind add the maida mixture and stirr well an d bring to boil. cool it and add enough cold water and starch the sarees.
if u spin the starched sarees in washing machine the excess starch will be gone and it wil be easy to iron also