With Mother`s Day around the corner, we sat down with Sagrika and Gaurika Rai, the dynamic mother-daughter duo steering Banarasi textile heritage in Mumbai. Under the peaking sun at Marine Lines, their workstation is brimming with fabrics for bridal lehengas, odhnis, dupattas and exquisite couture waiting to undergo tailored fittings.

Owning two decades of expertise in hand-woven silk, the store Warp `n Weft was once just a fantasy dreamt by a conceiving mother. Sagrika (the mother) takes us back to 1997 when echoes of Kashi began to stir within her. Back then, at the age of 26, her womb had come to fruition when she got hooked on the idea of slow luxury wrapped in Indian handloom.