Law Garden Night Market

Law Garden Night Market runs along the southern and western edges of Law Garden in the Ellisbridge district of Ahmedabad, in the Gujarat region of India, and it is the city's default answer to the question of where to buy anything embroidered. The stalls open around five in the afternoon and trade until roughly eleven at night, setting out hundreds of chaniya cholis, the flared skirt and blouse worn for garba, alongside mirror-worked bags, torans and door hangings, block-printed bedcovers, oxidised silver-tone jewellery and Kutchi embroidery panels. The market was rebuilt in 2020 into a permanent row of numbered stalls with paved walkways, which made it far easier to navigate than the informal line of handcarts it replaced. Prices are negotiable and expected to be negotiated, generally settling well below the opening quote, and several stalls rent complete garba outfits by the night rather than selling them outright, which suits visitors in town only for Navratri. Quality varies sharply from stall to stall: machine embroidery and screen prints sit beside genuine hand-worked Kutchi pieces, and the difference shows in the reverse of the fabric. Immediately alongside, the Law Garden khau gali serves pav bhaji, sandwiches, dabeli and kulfi from a line of carts, so the market doubles as an evening out rather than only a shopping errand. Demand peaks in the weeks before Navratri, when the lanes are close to impassable after eight in the evening.