Bolya Sarees

We are located on the ground floor of the Surat Textile Market, specifically at shop N-1075. If you have ever been to Ring Road, you know how chaotic the traffic can get with all the trucks and rickshaws and people carrying heavy bundles. The market itself is like a giant beehive that never stops moving. Inside our shop, it is mostly stacks and stacks of sarees in every color and pattern you can think of. We don't really have fancy displays or mannequins. Instead, we have large white mattresses on the floor where we unfold the sarees for people to see the work properly. It is a lot of folding and unfolding all day long. My back usually aches by the evening from all the bending over and lifting. We drink a lot of tea while we talk to the retailers who come from all over the country to buy their stock. The lights are very bright so that the colors show up true, but it makes the shop feel quite warm in the afternoons. There is always a lot of plastic wrap and cardboard lying around from the new shipments. We try to keep it organized, but during the peak season, it is nearly impossible to keep the floor clear. We aren't trying to be fancy. We just know our fabrics and we stay busy from the moment the market opens until the shutters go down.