THE CHENNAI SILKS

History

Its founder Thiru. A. Kulandaivel Mudaliar.He was lived in the village near avinashi. entered the business in 1962.However its first textile shop was started in Tirupur in 1991 as 'Kumaran silks' with his hard work, later renamed as 'The Chennai Silks' in 2001. They also export clothes for chain stores in the United States and Europe including Decathlon, Carrefour, TESCO.

Locations[edit]

The largest textile kingdom in Tamil Nadu, The Chennai Silks has proven to be a shopper's delight for generations of families. It has a widespread reach with sprawling showrooms across India.

List of Branches

S.No	Branch	Opening Date
1	Tiruppur	12-Sep-1991
2	Coimbatore 1-Oppanakara Street	16-Sep-1996
3	Erode	01-Sep-2000
4	Chennai	21-Aug-2001
5	Trichy	23-Oct-2004
6	Coimbatore 2-Oppanakara Street	24-Oct-2007
7	Coimbatore 3-Cross Cut Road	04-Sep-2008
8	Karur	04-Sep-2008
9	Kochi	06-July-2009
10	Tirunelveli	01-Sep-2011
11	Vellore	30-Sep-2013
12	Salem	14-Oct-2013
13	Villupuram	27-Aug-2014
14	Hosur	12-Sep-2014
15	Velachery	25-Sep-2014
16	Madurai	16-Sep-2015
17	Chittoor	30-Sep-2016
18	Tuticorin	23-Aug-2017
19	Kumbakonam	24-Aug-2017
20	Dindigul	01-Oct-2017
21	Thiruvallur	04-Sep-2017
22	Hyderabad	15-Sep-2017
23	Thanjavur	21-Jan-2018
24	Chrompet	19-Feb-2018
25	Mehdipatnam	03-Jun-2018
26	Puducherry	23-Oct-2020
27	Pudukkottai	02-Aug-2021

Records

In 2007, a Guinness world record - "most expensive silk saree" was created by Chennai Silks.^[5] It was worth about $100,021; £50,679 (WORTH ₹41 LAKHS) and features reproductions of 11 famous paintings by the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma. The main image is a reproduction of Varma's famous 'Galaxy of Musicians'. It took around 4760 man-hours to complete the design.