The sarees of West Bengal
16 sarees tied to West Bengal: woven there, or made its own.
Motifs of West Bengal
🇮🇳 India and 4 moreSariसाड़ी
A single unstitched length of cloth, tucked at the waist and slung over one shoulderSilk · Brocade · Ikat
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreTant sari
A light, near-transparent cotton sari woven in Bengal, suited to hot, humid weatherCotton · Jamdani · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaMurshidabad silkমুর্শিদাবাদী রেশম
Fine, light silk from Murshidabad in West Bengal, woven mostly into sarisSilk · Zari work · Jamdani
🇳🇵 NepalChaubandi Cholo
A cotton blouse from Nepal, wrapped on and often printed in red and whiteCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaKorial sariকোরিয়াল শাড়ি
A red-bordered mulberry silk saree woven on hand looms in West BengalSilk · Jamdani · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaBegampuri sareeবেগমপুরী শাড়ি
Cotton handloom saree from Begampur in West Bengal, woven with a contrasting borderCotton · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMalda silk
A soft, golden-yellow silk yarn from Malda district, West Bengal, woven into sareesSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaGarad sariগরদ শাড়ি
A fine silk sari woven on pit looms in Murshidabad and Birbhum, worn at Durga PujaSilk · Zari work · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaShantiniketan batik
Hand-painted batik from Shantiniketan in Bengal, its colours mixed from leaf and barkBatik · Hand painting
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreNakshi kanthaনকশি কাঁথা
An embroidered quilt from Bengal, stitched from old sarees with a simple running stitch.Cotton · Kantha · Embroidery
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 2 moreMuslin
A gossamer plain-weave cotton fabric historically spun and woven across BengalCotton · Jamdani
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreJamdaniজামদানি
A sheer cotton muslin saree decorated with hand-woven supplementary weft motifsCotton · Jamdani · Brocade
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreTangail saree
A Bengal handloom saree in cotton or silk, known for stepped extra-weft patterns.Cotton · Jamdani
🇮🇳 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 moreHandloom sari
Saris woven by hand on pit looms in India and BangladeshSilk · Zari work · Jamdani
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreTangail saree
A Bengal handloom saree with stepped extra-weft patterns, woven in cotton and silkCotton · Jamdani · Brocade
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Garad sari: Bongan, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Shantiniketan batik: Sumita Arup, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Handloom sari: P.K.Niyogi, Public domain, source
- Tant sari: Billjones94, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sari: Suyash.dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Muslin: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Tangail saree: P.K.Niyogi, Public domain, source
- Tussar silk: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Jamdani: Salim_Khandoker, CC0, source
- Nakshi kantha: A junaid alam khan ( talk ), Public domain, source
- Chaubandi Cholo: This file is a work by Ester Inbar ( user:ST or he:user:ST ). More of, Attribution, source