NYSA SILK is not a brand chasing a market. It is a daughter carrying her father's lifetime — 55 years across Dharmavaram, Kanchipuram and the southern silk corridors — into the homes of women who care where their saree came from.
Our founder's father is seventy years old today. He has been in silk since he was fifteen. That is 55 years in the silk trade of Dharmavaram — an Andhra Pradesh town where silk and cotton have been woven for centuries, and whose market has long handled both its own weave and the Kanchipuram silk the South's traders carry between the two towns.
He learned the trade by walking. As a wholesaler he moved silk between Dharmavaram, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Kanchipuram itself — carrying bundles, watching the looms, knowing which weaver was capable of which weave, which house could be trusted with which order. Later he opened a retail shop in his hometown. People didn't walk in for a brand. They walked in for him.
Jaya — his daughter — grew up around the work. She remembers, as a child, the smell of new silk in the back room and the clatter of looms in the houses he visited. As she grew older she began watching more closely: a man who could tell you, by touch alone, whether the zari was pure silver or copper, whether the silk was 2-ply Mulberry or 3-ply, whether the shuttle on a particular loom was being thrown by a master or an apprentice. None of this is written anywhere. It lives in him.
NYSA SILK is her project — to bring that lifetime online before it goes with him. Every saree we sell is curated by Jaya and vetted by him. We do not import. We do not re-sell from Surat. Every piece comes from one of our named weaver families, in Dharmavaram, Kanchipuram, and the surrounding villages he has walked for half a century.
That is the promise. The saree you receive is the one he picked for his own daughter.
Not stock photographs — our own. The albums these come from sit in the family home in Dharmavaram.
Late Dasari Narayanappa
Where the trade began
Dasari Sreeramulu
Fifteen when he entered the silk markets
Dasari Sreeramulu
Fifty-five years in silk, and counting
Jaya with her father
The daughter who brought it online
Our founder's father — then fifteen — walks into the Dharmavaram silk markets carrying his first bundle of sarees. He learns the weaves by touch, the looms by name, and the southern markets by foot.
Two decades crisscrossing Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Hyderabad — wholesale by day, weaver relationships by evening. He learns which Kanchipuram looms also weave for Dharmavaram traders, and which weavers tag their work for which markets.
A retail shop opens in his hometown. Customers begin asking specifically for him — not for the brand on the saree, but for the man who can tell you which weaver wove it.
Jaya — his daughter — grows up beside the trade. She watches him pick faults in zari by candlelight and recognise looms by the rhythm of the shuttle. She begins keeping his notes, learning the craft the way it has always been taught: by hand, beside the master.
Jaya carries her father's lifetime online. NYSA SILK launches — not as a brand chasing a market, but as a digital house bringing 55 years of weaver relationships into a new century. Every saree is curated by her, vetted by him.
Our curation comes from 55 years in the silk trade. Jaya's father knows the weaver families of Kanchipuram and Dharmavaram by name, and which looms weave to which standard for which markets. That knowledge — passed person to person, never written down — is the source of everything we sell.
We do not source from middlemen. Our weaver families are known to us, by name, by village, by loom. Each saree on our site carries its weaver's story. Price reflects fair wage to the maker — never compression of margin downstream.
A silk saree should be lived in, draped at weddings, folded into trousseaus, inherited. We will tell you what to look for, what to avoid, and when not to buy from us. Education before transaction is how trust compounds.
A fixed ₹100 from every saree sold goes to the Weaver Welfare Fund — education, healthcare, retirement support for the artisan families that built this house. We publish the numbers. So far: ₹2.4L+ contributed, 35+ families supported, 12 children sponsored through school.
₹100 from every saree sold funds education, healthcare and retirement support for our weaver families in Dharmavaram and Kanchipuram. We publish the numbers because the promise is only as good as the proof.
See the Welfare DetailSpeak to Jaya directly on WhatsApp, book a private viewing, or let our digital concierge guide you to the saree that fits your occasion, drape and budget.
