The sarees of Bihar
4 sarees tied to Bihar: woven there, or made its own.
Motifs of Bihar
🇮🇳 IndiaSujini embroidery
A Bihar quilt craft where women stitch stories with a simple running stitchCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇳 India and 4 moreEri silk
A wild silk from northeast India, spun from cocoons the moth has leftEri
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreTussar silkkosa
Wild silk with a deep gold sheen, reeled from forest cocoons, woven into sarees in IndiaTussar · Kantha · Hand painting
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreRogan paintingरङ्गन्
Castor-oil paint drawn with a metal stylus to form mirrored patterns on fabricHand painting · Block print
🇮🇳 India and 4 moreEri silk
A wild silk from northeast India, spun from cocoons the moth has leftEri
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreTussar silkkosa
Wild silk with a deep gold sheen, reeled from forest cocoons, woven into sarees in IndiaTussar · Kantha · Hand painting
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreRogan paintingरङ्गन्
Castor-oil paint drawn with a metal stylus to form mirrored patterns on fabricHand painting · Block print
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Eri silk: Simtastic01, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tussar silk: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Rogan painting: Wiki-uk, CC BY-SA 3.0, source