I like "Cashmere" and "Khaki" for evoking the feel of those fabrics. When I think "Calico" I think "cat" because I don't actually have experience with calico fabric. :-) I also like "Teak"

"Almirah" is not an English word I knew, so if you were going for that level of familiarity, it'd fail with me. Same with "Dhol". "Indigo" feels generic to me (rather like the name of a nightclub).

"Bangle" might be nicely subversive since bangles are showy and ornamental.

How would you feel about "Cheetah", "Shawl", "Cowrie", "Jute," "Lacquer", or "Opal"?

"Juggernaut" and "Ginger" are already in use, by bodybuilders and redheads respectively.

Most of these feel too... generic? I like "Jaggery" best.

Bangle. I like all of the connotations. I also like the look of it in print, the sound of it on the tongue, the myriad images it evokes.

I love Almirah, but I am familiar with the word. It just makes me picture opening a big cupboard of stories of all types, because when opening an almirah in India it's usually a colourful explosion of saris.

Indigo is worrisome to me just because in Canada Indigo books is our main bookstore.

I love Almirah too, but I think we've decided it's just not commonly-enough known, and is difficult for unfamiliar folks to spell. Indigo has both that problem, and that it's apparently lesbian-identified, which I hadn't realized.

I think we're actually down to Jaggery and Teak as the top contenders, based on various places I've been asking.