Sircilla’s 5.5‑metre saree, 2.5 or 2:50?
A Sircilla handloom artist says he wove a 5.5‑metre silk saree in under three hours and is chasing record‑book validation. The timing—and the verification—still need a loom-side stopwatch, not a slogan.
The saree is woven; the record still awaits verification.
Sircilla handloom artist Veldi Hariprasad says he wove a 5.5‑metre silk saree on a handloom in either 2 hours 50 minutes (as the report’s header and copy state) or 2.5 hours (as a later line puts it). According to the same report, the saree is 5.5 metres long, 45 inches wide, weighs 170 grams and was designed to fit inside a matchbox, with 10,500 weft threads and 1,500 warp threads. He says he did it to seek recognition from the Limca Book of Records, Guinness World Records and India Book of Records.
That’s the claim. What we don’t have yet is an independent timing sheet, a continuous video, or a record‑book acknowledgement. No category acceptance, no verification note, no award listing was available in the material we could find. Sircilla municipal chairperson Jindam Kala was reported congratulating him, and the Padmashali association in town felicitated him—good; now the paperwork needs to catch up to the craft.
Hariprasad’s miniature and specialty work is documented elsewhere: matchbox‑sized textiles, ring‑through sarees and a gold‑and‑silk piece for Bhadradri are all on the record. What isn’t established yet is Monday’s stopwatch number. When the certificate arrives, we’ll say record; until then, it’s a strong Telangana attempt waiting on someone outside the state to do their job for once.