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Mr Rm. K. Viswanathan (second from right) describing the making of the silk sari at Hotel Taj Coromandel in Chennai on Monday. — S. Thanthoni

Chennai , July 18

ANOTHER attempt at Guinness Record for a silk sari. This time around, RmKV has tried to set a record by using over 50,000 colours in one silk sari.

Mr Rm. K.Viswanathan, Partner of Rm. K. Visvanantha Pillai & Sons, said that each individual yarn was dyed at the company's dyeing plant combining traditional techniques and the latest in dyeing technology.

Then the company's handpicked master weavers wove them together in a special check pattern to create 50,000 different colours on the body of the sari. Mr Viswanathan said that it took four months for the entire dyeing process to be completed and had two weavers working continuously for 45 days.

Last July, the company broke the existing record for the longest silk sari in the world by weaving a 702-ft-long silk sari and was officially listed in the Guinness World Book of Records.

Mr N. Murali, Joint Managing Director of The Hindu, and Mr T.H. Somasekhar, Director, Central Silk Technology Research Institute, were the judges who witnessed the counting of colours.

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