This is the category where a photograph fails hardest and a camera helps most.
Why
A saree flat on a table shows you a rectangle. It does not show the fall, the weight, how the light moves across the weave, or what the border does when it drapes — which is most of what somebody is buying.
What to show
Drape it. Over an arm, a stand, a person. The fall is the product.
Move it under the light. Silk and zari both change completely with the angle, and this is the single most useful thing live video does here.
The reverse. The back of the weave tells an experienced buyer a great deal and is almost never photographed.
The border and pallu, close. Where the work is and where the value concentrates.
The selvedge.
Any damage. Pulls, stains, weak points along old folds. Especially on vintage pieces.
Describing it
Say the weave or the region, the fabric, and whether it is handloom or powerloom if you know. Say the measurements — length and blouse piece — because "standard" is not one.
If you are not certain of the attribution, say so. "Sold as a silk from this region, I am not an expert on the weave" is honest and avoids a dispute.
On zari and authenticity
Buyers will ask what the zari is. Say what you know and what you do not — the tests that distinguish real metallic zari from imitation are physical and destructive, and nothing settles it through a screen.
Price an uncertain piece as uncertain.
Delivery
Creasing is the damage that matters. Packing textiles.
More: how to sell on Metzee, pricing.