GI-tagged sarees
67 sarees protected as a Geographical Indication: cloth that may only be sold under its name if it is made in its home place, in its traditional way.
🇮🇳 IndiaPedana Kalamkari
Hand block-printing with plant dyes, centred on Pedana town in Andhra PradeshBlock print
🇮🇳 IndiaKhandua
An Odisha ikat silk saree woven with temple verses and auspicious motifsSilk · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaChanderi sari
A silk sari woven in Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh, with gold and silver zariSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMalda silk
A soft, golden-yellow silk yarn from Malda district, West Bengal, woven into sareesSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaShantiniketan batik
Hand-painted batik from Shantiniketan in Bengal, its colours mixed from leaf and barkBatik · Hand painting
🇮🇳 IndiaPatola sari
A double ikat silk saree from Patan, Gujarat, dyed and knotted before it is wovenSilk · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaMoirang Phee
A Manipur handloom with stepped tooth borders woven from both edges toward the centreCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaOdisha Ikat
Silk tied, dyed and woven in Odisha villages into saris with hazy, feathered edgesSilk · Ikat · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaKanchipuram sari
A silk sari from Kanchipuram with a separate contrast border locked onto the bodySilk · Zari work · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaKandangi
A checked cotton saree from Chettinad, dyed in earthy colours with broad bordersCotton · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaPaithani
A Maharashtrian handwoven silk sari with interlocking tapestry borders and peacock motifsSilk · Zari work · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaPochampally sari
A Telangana handloom saree whose geometric motifs are dyed into the yarn before weavingSilk · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaMangalagiri sari
A cotton saree from a temple town in Andhra Pradesh, with a zari border and a plain bodyCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreHandloom sari
Saris woven by hand on pit looms in India and BangladeshSilk · Zari work · Jamdani
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreUppada Jamdani sari
A light handwoven silk sari from Uppada, Andhra Pradesh, patterned in the jamdani waySilk · Jamdani · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaChikankariचिकनकारी (Urdu: چکن کاری)
White thread hand embroidery from Lucknow, stitched on pale, sheer clothCotton · Embroidery · Block print
🇮🇳 IndiaTangaliya shawl
A Gujarat shawl woven on pit looms, its dots raised by knots of contrast threadCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaArani silk saree
A handloom silk saree from Arani, Tamil Nadu, known for its zari workSilk · Zari work · Block print
🇮🇳 IndiaKorial sariকোরিয়াল শাড়ি
A red-bordered mulberry silk saree woven on hand looms in West BengalSilk · Jamdani · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaKoorai silk sariகூரை பட்டு புடவை
A nine-yard silk-cotton bridal sari with small checks, woven at Koranad in Tamil NaduBlend · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaAssam silk
Golden muga, white pat and warm eri silks, reared and hand-woven in AssamMuga
🇮🇳 IndiaPuttapaka saree
A silk double-ikat saree tied and dyed by hand in Puttapaka village, Nalgonda.Silk · Ikat · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaKasaragod saree
A hard-wearing handloom cotton saree from Kasaragod district in KeralaCotton · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaChendamangalam saree
A fine cotton saree with a thin black tamarind-leaf border, handwoven in Kerala.Cotton · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaBagh print
Hand block printing with natural red and black dyes from a village on the Bagh riverCotton · Block print
🇮🇳 IndiaLambada embroidery
Mirror-and-cowrie hand embroidery by Banjara women of Karnataka and TelanganaEmbroidery · Appliqué
🇮🇳 IndiaKani shawl
A pashmina shawl woven on a handloom with small wooden spools, from Kanihama in Kashmir.Wool
🇮🇳 IndiaSujini embroidery
A Bihar quilt craft where women stitch stories with a simple running stitchCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaKutch embroidery
Hand-stitched mirror work from Kutch, Gujarat, made by women of its tribal communitiesCotton · Embroidery · Mirror work
🇮🇳 IndiaBegampuri sareeবেগমপুরী শাড়ি
Cotton handloom saree from Begampur in West Bengal, woven with a contrasting borderCotton · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaShaphee Lanphee
A heavy black and red embroidered textile woven by Meitei craftswomen in ManipurCotton · Embroidery
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 2 moreMuslin
A gossamer plain-weave cotton fabric historically spun and woven across BengalCotton · Jamdani
🇮🇳 IndiaIlkal sari
A cotton saree with a loop-joined silk pallu and broad red border, from Ilkal, KarnatakaCotton · Zari work · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaBomkai sari
An Odisha handloom saree with extra-weft threadwork, woven in cotton and silkCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaGarad sariগরদ শাড়ি
A fine silk sari woven on pit looms in Murshidabad and Birbhum, worn at Durga PujaSilk · Zari work · Brocade
🇮🇳 India and 4 moreZardoziज़रदोज़ी
Heavy gold and silver metal embroidery on silk, satin or velvet, from Iran to IndiaSilk · Embroidery · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaBerhampur Patta
Odisha silk saree with a phoda kumbha temple border and zari edging, GI protectedSilk · Zari work · Temple border
🇮🇳 IndiaDokhonaदख'ना
A wrap-around cloth worn by Boro women of Assam, usually yellow, with woven Agor designsCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaPat silkপাট ৰেচম
A glossy, naturally white mulberry silk from Assam, woven into mekhelas and chadarsSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaTelia Rumal
Oil-treated yarn, ikat dyeing and plant colours, from Andhra Pradesh and TelanganaIkat
🇮🇳 IndiaToda embroiderypukhoor
Red and black thread embroidery on white cotton, worked by Toda women in the NilgirisCotton · Embroidery
🇹🇭 ThailandThai silkผ้าไหมไทย
Hand-woven Thai silk with a two-tone sheen, from glossy mulberry and matte eri cocoonsSilk · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaKasuti
Counted-thread folk embroidery from Karnataka, stitched on Ilkal and Mysore silk sareesCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaGadwal sari
A handwoven sari from Telangana with a cotton body, silk border and zari palluSilk · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaSurat zari
Metal-wrapped thread made in Surat and woven into silk sarees across IndiaSilk · Zari work · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaThirubuvanam silk sari
Silk saree from a Thanjavur district town, its border and pallu dense with zariSilk · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaKotpad handloom fabric
Cotton and tussar sarees dyed with aul-root dye, handwoven in Koraput, OdishaCotton · Jamdani
🇮🇳 IndiaWangkhei Phee
A see-through white cotton fabric from Manipur, woven by women with hand-woven motifsCotton · Jamdani
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
- Chanderi sari: India Untravelled, CC BY 2.0, source
- Shantiniketan batik: Sumita Arup, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Patola sari: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Odisha Ikat: Atudu, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kanchipuram sari: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0, source
- Kandangi: RidahZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Paithani: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Pochampally sari: Hermann Linde, Public domain, source
- Handloom sari: P.K.Niyogi, Public domain, source
- Chikankari: Joey Berzowska, CC BY 2.0, source
- Arani silk saree: Balu 606902, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Assam silk: Hiranmoy Boruah, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Koorai silk sari: En.saravanan, CC BY 4.0, source
- Chendamangalam saree: Malluchronicle, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bagh print: Mrqd9, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lambada embroidery: Daderot, CC0, source
- Kani shawl: Shahidkashmir, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kutch embroidery: Jainamishra, CC BY 3.0, source
- Muslin: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Ilkal sari: T B Dinesh, CC0, source
- Zardozi: Zarood, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dokhona: Bodoland Territorial Council, CC0, source
- Kasuti: Kannadiga, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Thai silk: JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Surat zari: Hiart, CC0, source
- Bomkai sari: Nayansatya, CC BY 3.0, source
- Pedana Kalamkari: Sathishkagitha, CC BY-SA 4.0, source