The sarees of West Bengal
16 sarees tied to West Bengal: woven there, or made its own.
Motifs of West Bengal
🇮🇳 IndiaShantiniketan batik
Hand-painted batik from Shantiniketan in Bengal, its colours mixed from leaf and barkBatik · Hand painting
🇮🇳 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 moreTant sari
A light, see-through cotton saree from Bengal with a heavy borderCotton · Jamdani · Embroidery
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Shantiniketan batik: Sumita Arup, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tant sari: Billjones94, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tussar silk: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source