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Vineyard Vintage CollectionBy Yvonne GulamhuseinDevini Dias has a flair for creating beautiful objects from ceramics. Having learnt the art of ceramics when she was living in England on her return to Sri Lanka Devini first launched a shop in Fort where her father
K.V.G. De Silva had his well-known bookshop.
Deshana (Pvt) Ltd. was started in November 1996 with the aim of supplying exclusive ceramic ware to the local market. "In the two years we have been in existence we have built up a very good clientele. We have also set up a factory that manufactures these items. We use the finest raw materials and the items are all turned out by a highly skilled work force,"she said. "We use special Glazers that withstand the firing and not just paints. The items are not mass produced so that these colours in dinner sets and other items are limited and change from time to time. We have a range of four to five hundred items available at a time," Devini said. "My time," she said "is spent in the office and also in the factory.
I do all the colour and supervise the decorating part, so that all the
items are of a very high quality. It is a very interesting job as most
of the time we are turning out new items and it is always exciting to see
these new ideas and colours in your Devini has just launched their newest collection, named the Vineyard Vintage Collection and designer dinnerware sets. The dinnerware sets are all hand painted and only a limited number of each design will be available. "For Christmas we hope to have an exhibition in Kandy, my home town. We will also be launching many new products tor Christmas. These will include oven to table ware, large pot and column sets and many gift items as well as those for the home." Their factory is in Horana and everything is produced locally with trained workers and sold at their shop, Deshana in Colombo 5.
Be glamorous in sareeTired of wearing the saree that same old way, your mum and grandmum did before you? Fret not, there's
help at hand. Purnima Abeyratne, creative force behind the 'Inspirations'
label is a firm believer that when it comes to the saree, that most elegant
of eastern garments, there's no limits to your imagination.
Here former Miss Sri Lanka Nushara Fernando poses for the Mirror Magazine in some strikingly different saree drapes. And in case you're in the mood to be different too, here's how to do them in Purnima's style Black saree; draped in the usual Indian way, the fall is however wrapped around the neck. Purple saree: Indian fashion, with the fall this time draped around the hip and taken on to the arm from the back. Maroon saree: Again begun in Indian style, the fall is taken around the hip and tucked in at the left hip. Blue saree: Indian drape with the fall wrapped around the hip and taken on to the right shoulder across the back. Orange saree: traditional Indian drape with long fall over right
shoulder.
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actually transformed into the finished products."
