# EveryPallu

> Every saree in the world, thread by thread. A free guide to 161 sarees, weaves and drapes of India and South Asia, filed by region, country and weaving centre, by fibre (silk, cotton, tussar, muga, eri, linen, georgette, chiffon, organza, net, crepe, wool, synthetic, blend), by craft (brocade, jamdani, ikat, tie-dye, block-print, kalamkari, batik, embroidery, kantha, zari, mirror-work, applique, hand-painting, tanchoi, temple-border, checks), by drape, by occasion and by ritual wear, with 44 drapes drawn step by step, a live wear calendar, weaving-centre trails and a glossary. Published by ClearTrust.

Each saree page gives: name and native name, countries, weaving centres and states, what it is, where it comes from, how it is made, colours, motifs and borders, how it is worn, when, styles, care and buying notes, what it means, a short FAQ, further reading and source links. Pages are derived from Wikipedia and Wikidata with AI assistance and may contain mistakes; cite the page URL.

## Browse
- [All sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/sarees)
- [Regions](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/regions)
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- [Weaving centres](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres)
- [Drapes](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes)
- [GI-tagged sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/gi)
- [Silk sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/silk)
- [Cotton sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/cotton)
- [Tussar sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/tussar)
- [Muga sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/muga)
- [Eri sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/eri)
- [Linen sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/linen)
- [Georgette sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/georgette)
- [Chiffon sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/chiffon)
- [Organza sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/organza)
- [Net sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/net)
- [Crepe sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/crepe)
- [Wool and pashmina](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/wool)
- [Synthetic sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/synthetic)
- [Blended sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/fibres/blend)
- [Brocade](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/brocade)
- [Jamdani](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/jamdani)
- [Ikat](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/ikat)
- [Tie-dye](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/tie-dye)
- [Block print](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/block-print)
- [Kalamkari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/kalamkari)
- [Batik](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/batik)
- [Embroidery](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/embroidery)
- [Kantha](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/kantha)
- [Zari work](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/zari)
- [Mirror work](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/mirror-work)
- [Appliqué](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/applique)
- [Hand painting](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/hand-painting)
- [Tanchoi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/tanchoi)
- [Temple border](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/temple-border)
- [Checks and stripes](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/techniques/checks)
- [Wedding sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/occasions/wedding)
- [Festival wear](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/occasions/festival)
- [Everyday wear](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/occasions/daily)
- [Formal and office wear](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/occasions/formal)
- [Worship and ritual](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/occasions/ritual)
- [Party and evening wear](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/occasions/party)
- [Mourning and remembrance](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/occasions/mourning)
- [Dance and stage](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/occasions/performance)
- [Heirloom sarees](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/occasions/heirloom)
- [Uniform and institution](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/occasions/uniform)

## Live
- [Wearing today](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/today): wear days on now and next, saree of the day
- [The wear calendar](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/calendar)
- [Textile news](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/news)

## Learn
- [Glossary](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary)

## For agents
- [MCP server](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/mcp): Streamable HTTP, no key needed
- [JSON API](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/developers): GET https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/api/v1/<tool>
- [Sitemap](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/sitemap.xml)
- [How complete the catalogue is](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/coverage)

## Drapes
- [The Nivi drape](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/nivi): The most widely worn way to drape a saree: pleats at the navel, the free end over the left shoulder.
- [The Tamil Nivi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/tamil-nivi): The six yard Nivi as worn in Tamil Nadu, usually in silk or cotton with a wide contrast border.
- [The Telugu Nivi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/telugu-nivi): The Nivi as worn in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, often with a pleated pallu pinned neatly at the shoulder.
- [The Madisar](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/madisar): A nine yard saree worn with the pleats passed between the legs, by Tamil Brahmin women for rituals and weddings.
- [The Kodava drape](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/kodava): The saree of the Kodava women of Kodagu, with pleats gathered at the back and the pallu pinned at the shoulder.
- [The Bengali atpoure](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/bengali-atpoure): The Bengali way of draping a saree, with a wide pallu worn over the left shoulder, often tied with a bunch of keys.
- [The Brahmika drape](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/brahmika): A nineteenth century Bengali drape, with blouse and pallu over the left shoulder, linked to Jnanadanandini Devi of the Tagore family.
- [The Odia drape](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/odia): The Odisha way of wearing a saree, with the pallu over the left shoulder and a border that is meant to show.
- [The Gujarati seedha pallu](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/gujarati-seedha-pallu): The pallu is brought from the back over the right shoulder to the front, spread across the chest to show its design.
- [The Nauvari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/nauvari): Maharashtra's nine yard saree, passed between the legs and tucked at the back, giving a free and trouser-like drape.
- [The Brahmin kashta](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/kashta): The nine yard saree as worn by Marathi Brahmin women, with back pleats and a plain, formal arrangement of the pallu.
- [The Parsi drape](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/parsi-gara): The Parsi way of wearing a saree, with the pallu from the back over the right shoulder, often in the embroidered gara.
- [The Rajasthani lehenga and odhni](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/rajasthani-odhni): In Rajasthan many women wear a full skirt, a short blouse and a long veil cloth, the odhni, drawn over the head.
- [The Bihari and Maithili drape](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/bihari-maithili): Bihar's saree, often worn with the pallu over the head, with Bhagalpur tussar and painted Madhubani sarees as local cloths.
- [The Assamese mekhela chador](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/assamese-mekhela-chador): Assam's two-piece dress: a wraparound skirt, the mekhela, and a long cloth, the chador, with a blouse.
- [The Meitei phanek](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/manipuri-phanek): The Meitei woman's wraparound cloth, the phanek, with a shawl called the inaphi.
- [The Tripuri rignai and risa](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/tripuri-rignai): The dress of Tripuri women: a wrapped lower cloth, the rignai, with a chest cloth, the risa.
- [The Kerala mundum neriyathum](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/mundum-neriyathum): Kerala's two-piece cream and gold dress: a wrapped lower cloth, the mundu, and a shoulder cloth, the neriyathu.
- [The Santhal parhan and panchi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/santhal-parhan-panchi): The Santhal woman's dress: a white cotton cloth with a red border, wrapped in two parts, the parhan and the panchi.
- [The pre-stitched saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/pre-stitched): A saree with the pleats and often the pallu sewn in place, so it is stepped into and fastened like a skirt instead of being wrapped.
- [The lehenga saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/lehenga-saree): A saree worn over, or made as, a flared lehenga skirt, with the pallu draped over the shoulder: a fashion style that mixes two garments.
- [The dhoti saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/dhoti-saree): A fashion style that gives the saree the shape of a dhoti, with the pleats passed between the legs to make a trouser-like drape.
- [The pant style saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/pant-saree): A fashion style in which the saree is draped over fitted trousers or palazzo pants instead of a petticoat.
- [The butterfly drape](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/butterfly): A fashion drape in which the pallu is pleated and spread across both shoulders like wings, over an otherwise Nivi lower half.
- [The belted saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/belted): A fashion style in which a belt or waist chain is worn over the draped Nivi to hold the pleats and pallu and sharpen the waist.
- [The mermaid saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/mermaid): A fashion style in which the saree fits closely from waist to knee and flares at the hem, like a fishtail skirt.
- [The cape saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/cape-saree): A fashion style in which a cape, sewn or separate, replaces the usual pallu across the shoulders.
- [The jacket saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/jacket-saree): A fashion style in which a short or long jacket is worn over the blouse and under the pallu of a Nivi drape.
- [The gown saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/gown-saree): A ready-to-wear gown cut to look like a draped saree, with the pallu sewn on, closed by a zip and put on like a dress.
- [The half saree (langa voni)](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/half-saree): A three-piece South Indian outfit of skirt, blouse and a draped half-length cloth, worn by girls and young women before they take up the full saree.
- [The sari in Sri Lanka](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/sri-lankan-sari): The everyday and formal sari of Sri Lanka, worn mostly in the Indian way by Sinhalese and Tamil women, with its own Kandyan form beside it.
- [The Kandyan osariya](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/kandyan-osariya): The traditional dress of Sinhalese women from the Kandyan highlands, a sari-like garment with a frilled blouse, used today as a bridal and formal dress.
- [The sari in Bangladesh](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/bangladeshi-sari): The sari of Bangladesh, worn daily and for festivals, with famed Jamdani and Tangail weaves and red and white at the Bengali New Year.
- [The haku patasi of the Newar](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/haku-patasi): A black cloth with a red border worn by Newar women of the Kathmandu Valley, with a waist sash, for festivals and rites.
- [The sari in Pakistan](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/pakistani-sari): In Pakistan the shalwar kameez is the everyday dress, and the sari is worn mainly at weddings and formal events, especially in Karachi.
- [The Burmese htamein](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/burmese-htamein): The woman's tube skirt of Myanmar, a sewn cylinder of cloth folded and tucked at the waist without a knot, worn with a fitted blouse.
- [Kain and kebaya of Indonesia](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/kebaya-kain): A wrapped batik skirt with pleats at the front, a fitted kebaya blouse and often a shoulder scarf, the sari-like formal dress of Java and nearby lands.
- [The Balinese kamben](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/balinese-kamben): The wrapped cloth of Bali, worn with a sash and a fitted kebaya to the temple, one of the clearest everyday wraps of Southeast Asia.
- [The Thai chong kraben](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/chong-kraben): A rectangular cloth wrapped round the hips with the ends pulled between the legs and tucked at the back, giving a trouser shape, worn with a chest cloth.
- [The Cambodian sampot](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/cambodian-sampot): The wrapped silk skirt of Cambodia, folded at the front and tucked at the waist, often woven in ikat patterns called hol.
- [The Lao sinh](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/lao-sinh): The tube skirt of Laos, with a woven border at the hem and a shoulder cloth, worn by women for work, school and ceremony.
- [The Bhutanese kira](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/bhutanese-kira): The ankle-length wrapped dress of Bhutanese women, fastened at the shoulders with clasps and tied at the waist with a belt, worn with a blouse and jacket.
- [The sari of Indo-Fijians](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/indo-fijian-sari): The sari as worn in Fiji by the descendants of Indian indentured labourers, for weddings, Diwali and prayers.
- [The sari in the Indo-Caribbean](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/drapes/indo-caribbean-sari): The sari and head cloth of the Indian-descended communities of Guyana, Trinidad and Suriname, worn for weddings, prayers and festivals.

## Weaving centres
- [Kanchipuram](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/kanchipuram): A temple town south-west of Chennai whose heavy silk saris, woven with zari borders, are among the best known in India.
- [Kumbakonam and Thirubuvanam](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/kumbakonam): Delta towns in Tamil Nadu where silk saris, especially from Thirubuvanam, are woven in the Kanchipuram manner at a lighter weight.
- [Arani](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/arani): A town in north Tamil Nadu known for its light silk saris and silk cloth, often woven plain with narrow zari borders.
- [Salem](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/salem): An inland Tamil Nadu city with a large handloom and powerloom textile trade, known for its white silk veshtis and light silk saris.
- [Madurai](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/madurai): A temple city in southern Tamil Nadu whose Sungudi cotton, tie-dyed in small round dots, is among India's best known resist cloth.
- [Karaikudi and the Chettinad towns](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/karaikudi): The Chettinad region of Tamil Nadu is known for its thick cotton saris with wide, bold checks and borders, called Kandangi.
- [Coimbatore and Kovai](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/coimbatore): A great cotton and mill city in western Tamil Nadu, with a handloom tradition in Kovai cora cotton saris.
- [Mysuru](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/mysuru): The royal city of Karnataka, long associated with Mysore silk saris, which are known for pure silk and fine gold zari.
- [Bengaluru and the Karnataka silk belt](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/bengaluru): Karnataka's capital is a major market for silk, and the silk-growing towns of Ramanagara and Kanakapura lie close by.
- [Ilkal](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/ilkal): A town in north Karnataka whose cotton saris with a silk pallu, joined by a special loop, are among the state's best known handlooms.
- [Molakalmuru](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/molakalmuru): A small town in Chitradurga district, Karnataka, known for silk saris with a plain body and a gold-toned border.
- [Pochampally](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/pochampally): A weaving village near Hyderabad, known for ikat cloth in which the threads are dyed before weaving to make blurred geometric designs.
- [Dharmavaram](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/dharmavaram): A town in the Anantapur area of Andhra Pradesh, known for heavy silk saris and for pattu pavadas, the silk skirts worn by girls.
- [Gadwal](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/gadwal): A town in Telangana known for light cotton saris with a silk border, joined by an interlocking method.
- [Narayanpet](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/narayanpet): A small town in Telangana known for cotton and silk saris with temple borders and a distinctive pallu.
- [Venkatagiri](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/venkatagiri): A town in Tirupati district, Andhra Pradesh, known for fine cotton saris with zari borders, once woven for the local rulers.
- [Uppada](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/uppada): A coastal village in East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, known for jamdani silk saris woven with a supplementary weft.
- [Mangalagiri](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/mangalagiri): A temple town near Vijayawada, known for cotton saris with a nizam border, woven in strong colours.
- [Kuthampully](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/kuthampully): A weaving village in Thrissur district, Kerala, known for cream cotton saris and mundus with a gold border.
- [Balaramapuram](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/balaramapuram): A weaving town just south of Thiruvananthapuram, long known for fine white cotton with a gold border.
- [Chendamangalam](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/chendamangalam): A handloom village near Kochi, in Kerala, known for cotton mundus and saris woven by a cooperative of weavers.
- [Surat](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/surat): Gujarat's great textile city, which makes much of India's synthetic saris and has long been a centre for zari thread and brocade.
- [Patan](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/patan): A town in north Gujarat, the home of the Patola, a double ikat silk sari in which both warp and weft are tied and dyed.
- [Ahmedabad](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/ahmedabad): A great mill city with a rich craft heritage, and the home of museums and markets that show the textiles of Gujarat.
- [Kutch and Bhujodi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/kutch): A dry western district of Gujarat with a deep craft tradition: weaving at Bhujodi, embroidery, bandhani, block printing and mirror work.
- [Jamnagar](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/jamnagar): A city in Saurashtra, Gujarat, known for its bandhani, the tie-dye in which cloth is knotted into tiny dots before dyeing.
- [Jaipur, Sanganer and Bagru](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/jaipur): Jaipur and its surrounding villages are the heart of Rajasthan's block printing, with Sanganer and Bagru each known for a distinct style.
- [Kota and Kaithoon](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/kota): The town of Kaithoon, near Kota, weaves Kota Doria, a very light cotton and silk cloth with a square-check pattern.
- [Paithan](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/paithan): An old town on the Godavari in Maharashtra, the original home of the Paithani, a silk sari with a woven peacock and lotus pallu.
- [Yeola](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/yeola): A town in Nashik district, Maharashtra, where Paithani saris are woven in large numbers by handloom weavers.
- [Solapur](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/solapur): A textile city in south Maharashtra known for cotton cloth, bed sheets and chaddars, and for old powerloom and handloom weaving.
- [Maheshwar](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/maheshwar): A town on the Narmada, where Maheshwari saris in cotton and silk were first woven at the request of Ahilyabai Holkar.
- [Chanderi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/chanderi): A town in Ashoknagar district, Madhya Pradesh, known for sheer cotton and silk saris with small woven motifs.
- [Varanasi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/varanasi): The city on the Ganga whose silk brocades, woven with gold and silver thread, are the best known sarees of northern India.
- [Mubarakpur](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/mubarakpur): A weavers' town in Azamgarh district, east of Varanasi, long known for plain and patterned silk and for Banarasi sarees woven in homes.
- [Lucknow](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/lucknow): The city of chikankari, the fine white-on-white needlework worked on muslin, cotton and georgette sarees.
- [Delhi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/delhi): The capital is less a weaving town than a meeting place, where sarees from every state are sold, shown in museums and worn at national events.
- [Amritsar](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/amritsar): The Sikh holy city is a market for phulkari, the bright floss-silk embroidery of Punjab, now also worked on sarees.
- [Srinagar](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/srinagar): The valley city of Kashmir shawls: kani weaving, pashmina and fine needle embroidery, now also made into sarees.
- [Kullu](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/kullu): The valley of Kullu shawls, woven wool wraps with bright geometric borders, worn in the hills as a wrapped dress and as a shawl.
- [Bhagalpur](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/bhagalpur): Bihar's silk city, long known for tussar silk sarees and dress material woven in the weavers' quarters.
- [Nalanda](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/nalanda): Home of the ancient monastic university ruins and of the Bawan Buti sarees, woven with fifty-two small motifs.
- [Madhubani](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/madhubani): The home of Madhubani painting, whose line-drawn gods, fish and birds are now also painted on silk and cotton sarees.
- [Sambalpur](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/sambalpur): The town of Sambalpuri ikat, in which the thread is tied and dyed before weaving, so the pattern appears as a soft-edged design.
- [Bargarh](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/bargarh): A town of ikat weavers in western Odisha, also known for the Dhanu Jatra, a large open-air festival play.
- [Berhampur](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/berhampur): The silk city of southern Odisha, known for pata sarees with temple borders, woven in bright, deep colours.
- [Santipur](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/santipur): The cotton town of Nadia district, famous for Shantipuri tant sarees with fine borders and jamdani-style patterns.
- [Dhaniakhali](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/dhaniakhali): A weaving block of Hooghly district, known for cotton tant sarees with fine borders and bold stripes.
- [Murshidabad](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/murshidabad): The old capital of Bengal, home of Murshidabad silk and the origin of the Baluchari saree.
- [Bishnupur](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/bishnupur): The temple town of Bankura district, the home of Baluchari sarees with scenes from epics woven into the pallu.
- [Santiniketan](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/shantiniketan): The school town founded by Tagore, known for kantha stitching, batik and handloom cloth made by local women and artists.
- [Kolkata](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/kolkata): The great saree market of eastern India, where tant, jamdani, Baluchari and kantha are bought for Durga Puja.
- [Sualkuchi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/sualkuchi): The silk village on the Brahmaputra, where muga, pat and eri are woven into mekhela chador sets.
- [Guwahati](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/guwahati): The gateway to the northeast and its main market for Assamese silk, mekhela chador and handloom from the whole region.
- [Imphal](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/imphal): The capital of Manipur, where women wear the phanek, a woven wrap skirt, and sell cloth in the women-run Ima Keithel market.
- [Kohima](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/kohima): The hill capital of Nagaland, the place to see Naga shawls, each tribe with its own pattern, at the Hornbill Festival.
- [Aizawl](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/aizawl): The hill capital of Mizoram, where the puan, a woven wrap skirt with bands of colour, is worn by women every day.
- [Agartala](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/agartala): The capital of Tripura, where Tripuri women wear the rignai and risa, woven cloth in bold borders on a loin loom.
- [Shillong](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/shillong): The hill capital of Meghalaya, home to Khasi dress, eri silk from the state, and the Iewduh market.
- [Dhaka](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/dhaka): The capital of Bangladesh and the home of Dhakai jamdani, the hand-patterned muslin saree listed by UNESCO.
- [Tangail](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/tangail): The district town of Bangladesh's Tangail sari, a light cotton or silk handloom saree with fine borders.
- [Rajshahi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/rajshahi): The silk city of Bangladesh, on the Padma, where mulberry silk is reared, reeled and woven into sarees.
- [Kandy](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/kandy): The hill capital of the last Sinhalese kingdom, where the Kandyan osariya, with its pleated front and frilled shoulder, was worn.
- [Colombo](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/colombo): Sri Lanka's commercial capital, where sarees of every kind, handloom, batik and Indian imports, are sold and worn.
- [Kathmandu](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/kathmandu): Nepal's capital, where women wear the saree, the Newar haku patasi in black and red, and dress in red for the Teej festival.
- [Amarapura](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/amarapura): The silk-weaving town near Mandalay, where wavy-patterned acheik cloth is woven for the htamein, the Burmese wrapped skirt.
- [Karachi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/centres/karachi): Pakistan's largest city, where the saree is worn by many families at weddings and formal events and sold in its cloth markets.

## Wear days
- [Navratri](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/navratri): Nine nights of the goddess, with Garba and Dandiya in Gujarat and a chosen colour for each day in many homes.
- [Navaratri Golu](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/navaratri-golu): In Tamil Nadu and neighbouring states, homes set out tiered displays of dolls and women visit each other in silk sarees.
- [Mysuru Dasara](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/mysuru-dasara): The ten-day state festival of Karnataka, ending in a palace procession, with Mysore silk the saree of the season.
- [Dussehra (Vijayadashami)](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/dussehra): The tenth day after Navratri, kept as the victory of good over evil, with new clothes and silk sarees for the day.
- [Bathukamma](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/bathukamma): Telangana's flower festival: women stack seasonal blooms into a cone, sing around it, and dress in new sarees.
- [Diwali](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/diwali): The festival of lights: new clothes, lamps and Lakshmi puja, with silk and zari sarees bought for the season.
- [Dhanteras](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/dhanteras): The first day of Diwali, when it is auspicious to buy gold, silver and new things, including a festive saree.
- [Bhai Dooj](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/bhai-dooj): Sisters mark their brothers' foreheads with tilak and pray for them, and wear new clothes for the visit.
- [Gujarati New Year (Bestu Varas)](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/gujarati-new-year): The first day of the Vikram Samvat year for Gujaratis, kept the day after Diwali, with new clothes and bandhani or Patan patola.
- [Karva Chauth](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/karva-chauth): Married women in north India fast from sunrise to moonrise in bridal reds, with henna and jewellery.
- [Akshaya Tritiya](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/akshaya-tritiya): A day held to bring lasting good luck, when families buy gold and begin new ventures, and often a new silk saree.
- [Hariyali Teej](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/hariyali-teej): The monsoon Teej of north India, with green sarees, glass bangles, henna and swings hung from trees.
- [Kajari Teej](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/kajari-teej): A monsoon Teej kept by women of the Hindi belt with fasting, folk songs called kajari, and festive clothes.
- [Hartalika Teej](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/hartalika-teej): Women fast a full day, some without water, in red or green sarees, remembering Parvati's penance to win Shiva.
- [Gowri Habba](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/gowri-habba): Karnataka's festival of the goddess Gowri, the day before Ganesha, with silk sarees and gifts of bagina.
- [Raksha Bandhan](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/raksha-bandhan): Sisters tie a rakhi on their brothers' wrists, often in a new saree, and receive a gift in return.
- [Sawan, the green month](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/sawan-green-sarees): In north India the rainy month of Sawan (Shravana) is the season of green sarees, bangles and henna.
- [Ganesh Chaturthi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/ganesh-chaturthi): The birthday of Ganesha, kept for up to ten days, when Maharashtrian women wear the nine-yard nauvari or a Paithani.
- [Krishna Janmashtami](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/krishna-janmashtami): The birth of Krishna at midnight, kept with fasting, dahi handi in Maharashtra, and yellow and blue clothes.
- [Varalakshmi Vratam](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/varalakshmi-vratam): Married women of the south worship Lakshmi on the Friday before the full moon, in silk sarees with gold jewellery.
- [Onam](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/onam): The harvest festival of Kerala: women wear the cream and gold kasavu saree or set-mundu, and a flower carpet is laid at the door.
- [Vishu](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/vishu): The Malayali new year, opening with the sight of the vishukkani and a gift of new clothes in kasavu or colour.
- [Puthandu (Tamil New Year)](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/puthandu): The Tamil new year in mid April, with a kolam at the door, temple visits and new silk or cotton sarees.
- [Karthigai Deepam](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/karthigai-deepam): The festival of lamps of Tamil Nadu, kept when the star Krittika meets the full moon, with rows of clay lamps at every door.
- [Margazhi and the Chennai music season](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/margazhi-season): The Tamil month from mid December to mid January, when Chennai holds its Carnatic music and dance season and silk sarees fill the halls.
- [Pongal](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/pongal): The four-day harvest festival of Tamil Nadu, with a pot of new rice boiled over, a kolam at the door and new sarees.
- [Makar Sankranti](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/makar-sankranti): The January sun festival, when Maharashtrian women wear black sarees and swap sesame sweets, and kites fill Gujarat's sky.
- [Lohri](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/lohri): The midwinter bonfire night of Punjab, with phulkari dupattas, bright suits and sometimes sarees.
- [Baisakhi (Vaisakhi)](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/baisakhi): The spring harvest and Sikh new year, marking the founding of the Khalsa, with bright suits, turbans and phulkari.
- [Holi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/holi): The spring festival of colours, when people dress in white or old clothes and put on something fresh in the evening.
- [Vasant Panchami](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/vasant-panchami): The festival of spring and of the goddess Saraswati, kept in yellow sarees and yellow clothes.
- [Gangaur](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/gangaur): Rajasthan's spring festival of Gauri, with processions of women in bandhani, leheriya and bright lehengas.
- [Ugadi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/ugadi): The new year of Andhra, Telangana and Karnataka, with ugadi pachadi of six tastes and new silk or handloom sarees.
- [Gudi Padwa](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/gudi-padwa): The Marathi new year, with a gudi of silk cloth raised at the door and women in nauvari or Paithani.
- [Aadi Perukku](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/aadi-perukku): The eighteenth day of the Tamil month Aadi, when rivers are thanked for the rains and new clothes are worn.
- [Eid ul-Fitr in India](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/eid-ul-fitr-india): The festival ending Ramadan, with new clothes: chikankari from Lucknow, zari and Hyderabad silks, and festive sarees.
- [Christmas in Kerala and Goa](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/christmas-kerala-goa): Church-going women in Kerala and Goa wear sarees and traditional dress, with the kasavu and the chatta and mundu in Kerala.
- [Parsi New Year (Navroze)](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/parsi-navroze): The Parsi new year in August, when women wear the gara, an embroidered saree with Chinese-influenced motifs.
- [National Handloom Day](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/national-handloom-day): India's day for weavers and handloom cloth, 7 August, with exhibitions, awards and a call to wear a handloom saree.
- [Republic Day](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/republic-day): India's 26 January national day, with tricolour sarees in saffron, white and green and tableaux of the states.
- [Independence Day](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/independence-day): India's 15 August national day, marked with flag hoisting, khadi and tricolour sarees.
- [Gandhi Jayanti and khadi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/gandhi-jayanti-khadi): The birthday of Mahatma Gandhi on 2 October, the day of the spinning wheel and of khadi, hand-spun and hand-woven cloth.
- [Kabir Jayanti](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/kabir-jayanti): The birthday of Kabir, the weaver-poet of Varanasi, kept by many weaving communities on the full moon of Jyeshtha.
- [Vishwakarma Puja](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/vishwakarma-puja): The day artisans and workers honour their tools and looms, kept in mid September.
- [Summer, the cotton season](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/summer-cotton-season): From mid March to the end of May, light cotton, mulmul, linen and Chanderi are what women reach for.
- [The monsoon, light and quick-drying](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/monsoon-saree-season): From mid June to the end of September, women choose cloths that dry fast and lighter drapes that do not drag.
- [Winter, the silk and wedding season](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/winter-silk-season): From mid November to the end of February, cool weather suits silk, brocade, wool shawls and the main run of weddings.
- [Surajkund International Crafts Mela](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/surajkund-mela): The February crafts fair at Surajkund, near Delhi, where weavers and block printers from across the states set up stalls.
- [Karnataka Rajyotsava](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/karnataka-rajyotsava): Karnataka's state formation day on 1 November, when people wear the yellow and red of the Kannada flag.
- [Kerala Piravi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/kerala-piravi): Kerala's state formation day on 1 November, with the cream and gold kasavu worn in schools, offices and homes.
- [Durga Puja (Saptami to Dashami)](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/durga-puja-bengal): Bengal dresses anew for the four great days of Durga Puja, with tant, Dhakai, garad and Banarasi sarees going from pandal to pandal.
- [Sindoor Khela](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/sindoor-khela): On Bijoya Dashami, married Bengali women in white sarees with red borders smear sindoor on the goddess and on each other.
- [Kali Puja (Dipannita)](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/kali-puja-bengal): Bengal worships Kali on the new moon night of Diwali, with lamps, hibiscus flowers and a festive new saree.
- [Kojagari Lakshmi Puja](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/kojagari-lakshmi-puja): On the full moon night after Durga Puja, Bengali homes paint rice-paste footprints for Lakshmi and the women of the house wear a clean or new saree.
- [Bhai Phonta](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/bhai-phonta): Bengali sisters mark their brothers with a phonta of sandal paste, and the brothers give gifts, often a saree.
- [Saraswati Puja in Bengal](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/saraswati-puja-bengal): Yellow and white sarees fill Bengal on Saraswati Puja, and many schoolgirls wear a saree for the first time.
- [Dol Jatra and Basanta Utsav](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/dol-jatra-santiniketan): Bengal plays Holi as Dol Jatra, and at Santiniketan students in yellow basanti sarees dance in the spring festival begun by Tagore.
- [Poila Boishakh in West Bengal](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/poila-boishakh-west-bengal): The Bengali new year is kept in a white saree with a red border, a visit to the temple and a new account book for the shop.
- [Poush Mela, Santiniketan](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/poush-mela-santiniketan): A winter fair at Santiniketan where Bengal sells kantha sarees, batik and block prints beside Baul songs.
- [Rath Yatra, Puri](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/rath-yatra-puri): At the chariot festival of Puri, Odia women wear Sambalpuri and cotton sarees, and the Khandua cloth belongs to Jagannath himself.
- [Nuakhai](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/nuakhai-odisha): Western Odisha eats the first new rice together, in new Sambalpuri sarees, and greets with Nuakhai Juhar.
- [Raja Parba](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/raja-parba-odisha): Odisha keeps three days of rest for Mother Earth before the monsoon, with swings, pithas and new sarees for girls and women.
- [Odia New Year (Pana Sankranti)](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/odia-new-year-pana-sankranti): The Odia new year is met with a cooling pana drink, a temple visit and new cotton or silk sarees of Odisha.
- [Chhath Puja](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/chhath-puja-bihar): Women of Bihar and Jharkhand keep the Chhath fast at the river in clean new sarees, with sindoor applied long along the parting.
- [Sarhul](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/sarhul-jharkhand): The spring festival of Jharkhand's Oraon, Munda and Ho peoples, kept in a white saree with a red border and sal flowers.
- [Bohag (Rongali) Bihu](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/bohag-bihu): The Assamese new year, danced in a muga or pat mekhela chador in red and white, with a gamosa given to elders.
- [Bhogali (Magh) Bihu](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/bhogali-bihu): The Assamese harvest feast of mid January, with a bonfire, a community meal and mekhela chador in the cold.
- [Hornbill Festival](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/hornbill-festival): Nagaland's tribes meet in Kohima for ten days of dance and song, each in its own shawl, skirt and beads.
- [Chapchar Kut](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/chapchar-kut-mizoram): Mizoram's spring festival, with the bamboo dance and women in the striped puan, the wrapped cloth of the Mizo.
- [Shad Suk Mynsiem](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/shad-suk-mynsiem): The Khasi thanksgiving dance of Shillong, in which women wear silk jainsem, gold and silver ornaments and crowns.
- [Wangala (Hundred Drums Festival)](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/wangala-garo): The Garo post harvest festival, danced to a hundred drums, with women in the wrapped dakmanda and feather headdress.
- [Yaoshang](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/yaoshang-manipur): Manipur's five day spring festival, with the Thabal Chongba dance, and women in phanek and a light shawl.
- [Dev Uthani Ekadashi, the start of the wedding season](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/dev-uthani-wedding-season): On Dev Uthani Ekadashi Vishnu wakes, the months without weddings end, and the trousseau season of north India begins.
- [Kharmas, the month without weddings](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/kharmas-wedding-pause): From mid December to mid January, when the sun is in Sagittarius, many Hindu families hold no weddings, and saree shops turn to winter and trousseau stock.
- [Agrahayan, a Bengali wedding month](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/agrahayan-bengali-weddings): Agrahayan, from mid November to mid December, is one of the favoured months for Bengali weddings, with the red bridal saree and the yellow of gaye holud.
- [Pohela Boishakh in Bangladesh](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/pohela-boishakh-bangladesh): Bangladesh welcomes its new year in red and white sarees, with flowers in the hair and a dawn song at Ramna.
- [Pohela Falgun](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/pohela-falgun-bangladesh): The first day of spring in Bangladesh, kept in yellow and orange sarees with garlands of marigold.
- [Ekushey February](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/ekushey-february-bangladesh): Language Martyrs' Day in Bangladesh, kept at dawn barefoot in black, or in white with a black border.
- [Victory Day of Bangladesh](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/victory-day-bangladesh): On 16 December Bangladesh keeps its Victory Day, with sarees, flags and scarves in red and green.
- [Eid ul-Fitr in Bangladesh](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/eid-ul-fitr-bangladesh): After Ramadan Bangladesh buys new sarees, jamdani and Tangail cotton, applies henna on Chand Raat and dresses up for Eid.
- [Sinhala and Tamil New Year (Avurudu)](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/avurudu-sri-lanka): Sri Lanka marks the new year in April at auspicious hours set by the almanac, in new clothes, often an osariya or saree.
- [Vesak in Sri Lanka](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/vesak-sri-lanka): Sri Lanka lights lanterns for the Buddha and goes to temples in white, women in a white saree or osariya.
- [Teej in Nepal](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/haritalika-teej-nepal): Nepali women fast and dance in red sarees, with green glass bangles and the pote, for the festival of Teej.
- [Dashain in Nepal](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/dashain-nepal): Nepal's great festival, with new clothes for all, a red tika from the elders and the saree in red and bright colours.
- [Tihar in Nepal](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/tihar-nepal): The Nepali festival of lights, with lamps for Lakshmi, offerings to crows, dogs and cows, and the tika between brothers and sisters.
- [Thingyan, the Burmese water festival](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/thingyan-myanmar): The Burmese new year is a water festival, with women in a htamein and floral accessories dancing on the street stages.
- [Tazaungdaing, the festival of lights and weaving](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/tazaungdaing-myanmar): On the full moon of Tazaungmone Myanmar lights lanterns, and teams of women weave monastic robes in a single night.
- [Kartini Day](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/kartini-day-indonesia): On 21 April Indonesia remembers Kartini, with schoolgirls and women in kebaya and a batik kain panjang.
- [National Kebaya Day, Indonesia](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/hari-kebaya-nasional): Indonesia's Kebaya Day, set in 2023, asks everyone to wear the kebaya with a wrapped kain.
- [Khmer New Year](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/khmer-new-year): Cambodia's new year in mid April, with temple visits, water and powder play and silk sampot wrapped skirts.
- [National Day of Bhutan](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/bhutan-national-day): On 17 December Bhutanese women wear the kira, a wrapped dress pinned at the shoulders, with a rachu scarf and a jacket.
- [Deepavali in Singapore and Malaysia](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/deepavali-singapore-malaysia): A public holiday in Singapore and Malaysia, kept in new sarees and punjabi suits, with lights along Serangoon Road.
- [Thaipusam in Malaysia](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/thaipusam-malaysia): At Batu Caves devotees in yellow and saffron carry milk pots and kavadi to Murugan, and women wear yellow or orange sarees.
- [Indian Arrival Day, Trinidad and Tobago](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/indian-arrival-day-trinidad): On 30 May Trinidad remembers the first Indian indentured workers of 1845, with cultural events where women wear sarees and odhni.
- [Arrival Day, Guyana](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/indian-arrival-day-guyana): On 5 May Guyana remembers the first Indian indentured workers of 1838, with sarees, music and food.
- [Girmit Day, Fiji](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/girmit-day-fiji): On 14 May Indo-Fijians remember the arrival of the Leonidas in 1879 with prayers, songs and Indian dress.
- [Aapravasi Day, Mauritius](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/aapravasi-day-mauritius): On 2 November Mauritius remembers the first indentured Indian workers of 1834 at the Aapravasi Ghat, with sarees and ceremonies.
- [Diwali in Leicester](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/diwali-leicester-uk): Leicester holds one of the largest Diwali celebrations outside India, and the sari shops of Belgrave Road are at their busiest.
- [India Day Parade, New York](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/days/india-day-parade-new-york): In mid August New York's Indian community marches up Madison Avenue, with floats, dancers and sarees in the colours of the flag.

## Glossary
- **Pallu**: The free end of a saree, the part that crosses the chest and falls over the shoulder. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/pallu)
- **Border**: The decorated band that runs along each long edge of a saree. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/border)
- **Body**: The main stretch of the saree between the two borders and before the pallu. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/body)
- **Selvedge**: The firm edge of a woven cloth, made by the weft turning back at the side so that it cannot fray. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/selvedge)
- **Fall**: A strip of plain cloth stitched on the inside of the lower hem to weight it and protect it from wear. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/fall)
- **Hem**: The lower edge of the saree, the one that falls near the ankle when the cloth is worn. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/hem)
- **Kuchu**: The tassels at the end of the pallu, formed by knotting or twisting the loose warp threads. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/kuchu)
- **Blouse piece**: A length of cloth sold with the saree, meant to be stitched into the blouse. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/blouse-piece)
- **Inskirt**: The word used in India for a petticoat, the plain skirt worn under a saree. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/inskirt)
- **Petticoat**: The plain skirt worn under a saree, with a drawstring at the waist into which the cloth is tucked. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/petticoat)
- **Pavadai**: The Tamil word for a long skirt, worn under a saree or by girls with a blouse and a half-saree. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/pavadai)
- **Blouse**: The fitted, short upper garment worn with a saree, leaving the midriff bare. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/blouse)
- **Choli**: A short fitted bodice worn with a saree or a lehenga, the older name behind the modern saree blouse. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/choli)
- **Saree or sari**: Two English spellings of the same garment, a long unstitched cloth wrapped round the body. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/saree-vs-sari)
- **Nivi**: The commonest way of wearing a saree today: pleats at the front and the pallu over the left shoulder. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/nivi)
- **Pleats**: The fan of folds in the middle of the saree, tucked into the waist at the front. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/pleats)
- **Tuck**: The pushing of the edge of the cloth into the waist of the petticoat, which holds a saree without a pin or knot. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/tuck)
- **Pallu pin**: A small pin used to fix the pallu to the blouse at the shoulder so that it does not slip. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/pallu-pin)
- **Ghoonghat**: A veil made by drawing the pallu or a dupatta over the head and sometimes the face. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/ghoonghat)
- **Seedha pallu**: A drape in which the pallu is brought from the back over the right shoulder and falls in front. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/seedha-pallu)
- **Kaccha**: A style in which the saree is passed between the legs and tucked at the back, giving a trouser-like shape. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/kaccha)
- **Six-yard saree**: The standard saree length, about five and a half metres, enough for the Nivi drape. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/six-yard)
- **Nine-yard saree**: A longer saree, about eight metres, worn in drapes that pass between the legs. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/nine-yard)
- **Nauvari**: The Maharashtrian nine-yard saree and the drape worn with it, with the pleats passed between the legs. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/nauvari)
- **Madisar**: A nine-yard drape worn by Tamil Brahmin women, with the pleats passed between the legs. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/madisar)
- **Pre-stitched saree**: A saree with the pleats stitched in place and a waistband, so that it is worn like a skirt with a pallu. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/pre-stitched)
- **Lehenga saree**: A saree sewn or draped to look like a lehenga skirt with an attached pallu. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/lehenga-saree)
- **Lehenga**: A long, flared skirt, worn with a choli and a dupatta, common for weddings in north and west India. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/lehenga)
- **Ghagra**: A long, full, gathered skirt worn by women in north and west India. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/ghagra)
- **Chaniya choli**: The three-piece outfit of Gujarat and Rajasthan: a flared skirt, a short blouse and a long scarf. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/chaniya-choli)
- **Dupatta**: A long scarf worn over the shoulders or head, with a salwar suit, a lehenga or a ghagra. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/dupatta)
- **Langa voni**: A three-piece south Indian dress: a long skirt, a blouse and a half-length scarf called a voni or davani. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/langa-voni)
- **Mekhela**: A sewn tube skirt worn by women in Assam, wrapped at the waist and tucked in, part of the mekhela chador. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/mekhela)
- **Chador**: The upper cloth of the Assamese mekhela chador, draped over the blouse and tucked into the mekhela at the waist. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/chador)
- **Phanek**: The wrapped, ankle-length skirt of Meitei women in Manipur, worn with a blouse and a shawl. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/phanek)
- **Mundu**: The white cotton wrap worn round the waist in Kerala by women and men, often with a gold kasavu border. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/mundu)
- **Set mundu**: The two-piece Kerala dress in cream and gold: a mundu and a matching upper cloth. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/set-mundu)
- **Neriyathu**: The upper cloth of the traditional Kerala dress, worn over the shoulder with the mundu. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/neriyathum)
- **Dhoti**: A long rectangle of unstitched cloth wrapped round the waist and legs, worn by men and in some drapes by women. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/dhoti)
- **Veshti**: The Tamil word for the dhoti, a long cloth wrapped round the waist and legs. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/veshti)
- **Angavastram**: A long upper cloth worn over the shoulder, especially with a dhoti and at temple and ritual occasions. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/angavastram)
- **Antariya**: The lower garment of early India, a cloth wrapped round the waist and legs, an ancestor of the saree. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/antariya)
- **Uttariya**: The upper cloth of early Indian dress, worn over the shoulder or head, an ancestor of the saree pallu. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/uttariya)
- **Stanapatta**: A band of cloth worn across the chest in early Indian dress, before the stitched blouse. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/stanapatta)
- **Gara**: A Parsi saree with fine embroidery, often of birds, flowers and Chinese scenes, worn with the pallu in front. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/gara)
- **Osariya**: The Sri Lankan Kandyan saree, worn with a jacket and with a frill of pleats at the waist. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/osariya)
- **Haku patasi**: A black cloth with a red border, the traditional wrap of Newar women in Nepal. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/haku-patasi)
- **Htamein**: The wrapped ankle-length skirt of Myanmar women, a cousin of the saree. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/htamein)
- **Sarong**: A tube or wrapped cloth worn round the waist, common in South and Southeast Asia, a distant relative of the saree. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/sarong)
- **Zari**: Metallic thread, traditionally of gold or silver, used to weave or embroider borders, pallus and motifs. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/zari)
- **Buta**: A small repeated motif, such as a flower, leaf or sprig, scattered over the body or the pallu of a saree. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/buta)
- **Warp**: The set of threads stretched lengthwise on a loom, through which the weft is passed. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/warp)
- **Weft**: The thread that crosses the warp from side to side, built up row after row to make the cloth. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/weft)
- **Loom**: The frame or machine that holds the warp under tension so that the weft can be woven through it. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/loom)
- **Handloom**: A loom worked by the weaver's own hands and feet, with no electric power, and the cloth woven on it. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/handloom)
- **Jacquard**: A loom attachment, first made in France in the early nineteenth century, that lets each warp thread be raised on its own for complex patterns. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/jacquard)
- **Ikat**: A way of making patterned cloth by tying and dyeing the threads before they are woven. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/ikat)
- **Jamdani**: A fine, figured cotton cloth from Bangladesh and India in which motifs are woven in with extra weft threads, thread by thread. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/jamdani)
- **Bandhani**: A tie-dye craft of Gujarat and Rajasthan in which tiny points of cloth are tied tightly with thread before dyeing. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/bandhani)
- **Brocade**: A heavy woven cloth with raised patterns made by extra weft threads, often in zari. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/brocade)
- **Kalamkari**: A craft of Andhra Pradesh in which patterns are drawn or printed on cotton with natural dyes. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/kalamkari)
- **Block print**: A method of printing patterns on cloth with carved wooden blocks dipped in dye. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/block-print)
- **Pit loom**: A handloom set low over a pit dug in the floor, where the weaver sits at ground level with the feet in the pit. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/pit-loom)
- **Frame loom**: A handloom built on a raised wooden frame, with the weaver seated on a bench and the pedals hanging below. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/frame-loom)
- **Dobby**: An attachment that lifts chosen heddles in a set order, giving small woven patterns such as tiny checks, dots and diamonds. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/dobby)
- **Heddle**: A cord or wire with a small eye that holds one warp thread, so that groups of threads can be raised or lowered together. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/heddle)
- **Reed**: A comb-like frame on the loom that keeps the warp threads evenly spaced and presses each new weft thread into place. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/reed)
- **Shed**: The gap between the raised and lowered warp threads, through which the shuttle carries the weft. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/shed)
- **Treadle**: A foot pedal on the loom that raises or lowers the shafts of heddles, freeing the weaver's hands for the shuttle and reed. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/treadle)
- **Shuttle**: A smooth, boat-shaped holder that carries the weft thread across the warp through the shed. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/shuttle)
- **Throw shuttle**: A shuttle passed through the shed by hand, thrown from one side and caught on the other, slower than a fly shuttle. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/throw-shuttle)
- **Fly shuttle**: A shuttle driven across the loom by a cord pulled with one hand, which speeds up weaving and allows wider cloth. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/fly-shuttle)
- **Pirn**: The small spool of weft yarn that sits inside the shuttle and unwinds as the shuttle crosses the loom. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/pirn)
- **Pick**: One pass of the weft thread across the width of the cloth, also the count of weft threads in an inch. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/pick)
- **Sizing**: Coating the warp threads with starch paste so they are strong and smooth enough to survive the rubbing of weaving. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/sizing)
- **Powerloom**: A loom driven by an electric motor, which weaves much faster and more cheaply than a handloom. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/powerloom)
- **Punch card**: A stiff card with punched holes, read by a jacquard or dobby to decide which warp threads rise for each pick. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/punch-card)
- **Plain weave**: The simplest weave, where each weft thread passes over one warp thread and under the next, alternating on every row. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/plain-weave)
- **Twill weave**: A weave in which the crossings step along by one thread each row, giving fine diagonal ridges on the cloth. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/twill-weave)
- **Satin weave**: A weave with long floats of thread on one face, which reflect light and give a smooth, glossy surface. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/satin-weave)
- **Leno weave**: An open weave where pairs of warp threads twist around each weft thread, giving a light, airy cloth that does not slip. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/leno-weave)
- **Float**: A stretch of thread that passes over several crossing threads without binding down, seen as a loose strand on the back of patterned cloth. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/float)
- **Extra weft**: An added weft thread, often of zari or coloured silk, woven in only where the pattern calls for it, on top of the ground cloth. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/extra-weft)
- **Discontinuous weft**: A weave where a coloured or zari weft runs only within its own motif, turning back instead of crossing the whole width. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/discontinuous-weft)
- **Tapestry weave**: A weave where each colour of weft is worked only in its own area, so the pattern is part of the cloth rather than lying on top. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/tapestry-weave)
- **Cutwork**: Extra-weft weaving in which the thread carried across the back between motifs is trimmed away after the cloth is woven. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/cutwork)
- **Korvai**: In Kanchipuram weaving, a border in a different colour woven separately and joined to the body by interlocking the weft threads. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/korvai)
- **Kuttu**: The interlocking join used in Gadwal sarees, where a silk border and pallu are woven into a cotton body rather than sewn on. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/kuttu)
- **Sericulture**: The raising of silkworms and the plants they eat, to harvest cocoons from which silk thread is reeled. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/sericulture)
- **Mulberry silk**: The most common silk, from the domesticated silkworm Bombyx mori fed on mulberry leaves, fine, smooth and white to cream. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/mulberry-silk)
- **Vanya silk**: The group name in India for silks other than mulberry, which is tussar, muga and eri, from worms that feed on forest trees and plants. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/vanya-silk)
- **Tussar**: A wild silk with a coarse, dry texture and a natural golden to beige colour, woven in eastern and central India. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/tussar)
- **Muga**: A golden-yellow silk made only in Assam, from a worm that feeds on som and soalu leaves, known for its shine and long life. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/muga)
- **Eri**: A soft, warm, cream-coloured silk from Assam and the northeast, spun rather than reeled, from a worm fed on castor leaves. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/eri)
- **Ahimsa silk**: Silk made without killing the pupa in the cocoon, because the moth is allowed to leave before the silk is spun. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/ahimsa-silk)
- **Matka silk**: A silk cloth with a rough, nubby, slightly uneven surface, woven from yarn made from short silk fibres left over from reeling. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/matka)
- **Noil**: The short fibres left over after combing silk, or another fibre, spun into a rough, dull yarn. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/noil)
- **Dupion**: A crisp silk with a slightly uneven, slubby thread, made from double cocoons that two worms have spun together. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/dupion)
- **Sericin**: The sticky protein gum that holds the two silk strands of a cocoon together, and which is washed out to make silk soft. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/sericin)
- **Degumming**: Boiling silk in a soapy or mildly alkaline bath to remove its gum, which makes the thread soft and shiny. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/degumming)
- **Kora**: Raw or unbleached cloth, and in silk a crisp, sheer cloth woven with the gum left in the thread. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/kora)
- **Silk Mark**: A quality label from the Silk Mark Organisation of India, set up under the Central Silk Board, that certifies natural silk. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/silk-mark)
- **Handloom Mark**: A label issued by the Indian government to show that a piece of cloth was woven on a handloom, not on a powerloom. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/handloom-mark)
- **Burn test**: A simple home check for the fibre in a saree: burn a loose thread and look at how it burns, smells and what it leaves. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/burn-test)
- **Reeling**: Unwinding the long thread of silk from several softened cocoons at once and twisting them into one raw silk yarn. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/reeling)
- **Khadi**: Cloth that is both hand-spun and handwoven, tied in India to Gandhi and the swadeshi movement. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/khadi)
- **Charkha**: The hand-turned spinning wheel that twists loose fibre into yarn, closely tied to the history of khadi. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/charkha)
- **Mulmul**: A soft, fine, light cotton cloth in plain weave, the Indian word for the muslin the subcontinent was once famous for. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/mulmul)
- **Voile**: A light, slightly sheer plain-weave cloth made of tightly twisted yarn, used for easy summer sarees. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/voile)
- **Chanderi**: A light, sheer cloth from Chanderi in Madhya Pradesh, woven in silk, cotton or a blend, with small zari motifs and borders. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/chanderi)
- **Kota doria**: A very light cotton and silk cloth from Kota in Rajasthan, woven in a square check pattern that gives it a transparent, airy feel. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/kota-doria)
- **Linen**: Cloth woven from flax fibre, crisp and cool to wear, which creases easily and softens with each wash. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/linen)
- **Mercerised cotton**: Cotton yarn or cloth treated with a strong alkali under tension, to make it stronger, shinier and better at taking dye. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/mercerised-cotton)
- **Blend**: Cloth made of two or more fibres mixed in the yarn or used in the warp and weft, such as silk and cotton or cotton and polyester. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/blend)
- **Georgette**: A light, sheer, slightly crinkled cloth woven from tightly twisted yarns in both warp and weft, in silk or polyester. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/georgette)
- **Chiffon**: A very light, sheer, plain-weave cloth made of fine, tightly twisted yarn, which floats and drapes softly. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/chiffon)
- **Crepe**: A cloth with a crinkled, pebbly surface made by using highly twisted yarn, in silk, polyester or other fibres. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/crepe)
- **Organza**: A sheer, crisp, light cloth in plain weave from fine, tightly twisted yarn, in silk or polyester. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/organza)
- **Tissue**: A sheer, shimmering cloth woven with a zari weft over a fine silk or cotton warp, so the whole fabric glints. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/tissue)
- **Art silk**: A trade name for man-made fibre cloth sold as a cheaper stand-in for silk, usually viscose rayon, polyester or nylon. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/art-silk)
- **Yarn count**: A number that tells how fine a yarn is; for cotton, a higher count such as 80s means a finer thread than 20s. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/yarn-count)
- **Denier**: A measure of thread thickness used for silk and man-made fibres: the weight in grams of 9,000 metres of the yarn. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/denier)
- **Thread count**: The number of warp and weft threads in one square inch of cloth, a measure of how closely the cloth is woven. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/thread-count)
- **Ply**: A strand of yarn; yarn made of two or more strands twisted together is called two-ply or three-ply and is stronger and more even. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/ply)
- **Hank**: A loose loop of yarn wound in a ring, the form in which yarn is dyed and sold to weavers before it is wound onto bobbins. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/hank)
- **Real zari**: Zari made with real silver, gilded with a thin layer of gold, wound on a silk thread. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/real-zari)
- **Tested zari**: Zari sold with a test certificate that states how much silver and gold it contains. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/tested-zari)
- **Metallic zari**: Zari made without real gold or silver, usually from a metal-coated polyester film or a coated copper wire. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/metallic-zari)
- **Dhoop chaon**: A cloth woven with warp in one colour and weft in another, so the colour seems to shift with the light and the angle. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/dhoop-chaon)
- **Indigo**: A deep blue dye from the leaves of the indigo plant, used in India for thousands of years. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/indigo)
- **Madder**: A red dye from the roots of the madder plant, the classic natural red of Indian printed cloth. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/madder)
- **Lac**: A red dye and resin made by lac insects on tree twigs, used on silk and cotton. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/lac)
- **Mordant**: A metal salt or other substance that helps a natural dye bind to the fibre and stay fast. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/mordant)
- **Alum**: A mineral salt, the most widely used mordant in Indian natural dyeing. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/alum)
- **Myrobalan**: The dried fruit of a tree, rich in tannin, used to prepare cloth before natural dyeing. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/myrobalan)
- **Natural dye**: Colour taken from plants, insects or minerals rather than made from petrochemicals. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/natural-dye)
- **Azo-free**: Made with synthetic dyes that do not break down into certain banned chemicals, a standard for safe colour. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/azo-free)
- **Bagru**: Hand block printing from the village of Bagru in Rajasthan, with natural dyes and a mud resist. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/bagru)
- **Dabu**: A resist print in which a paste of mud, lime and gum is stamped on cloth before it is dyed. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/dabu)
- **Ajrakh**: A block print of Sindh and Kutch in indigo and madder red, printed on both sides of the cloth. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/ajrakh)
- **Kalam**: The bamboo pen with a felt-like tip used to draw and fill in colour in hand-drawn kalamkari. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/kalamkari-pen)
- **Batik**: A resist method in which wax is applied to cloth before dyeing so that the waxed areas keep their colour. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/batik)
- **Leheriya**: A Rajasthani tie-dye that makes diagonal wave stripes, worn especially in the rainy season. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/leheriya)
- **Mothra**: A leheriya pattern of small checks, made by tying the cloth in both directions. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/mothra)
- **Chunri**: A tie-dyed scarf or saree dotted with tiny tied circles, from Rajasthan and Gujarat. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/chunri)
- **Shibori**: A Japanese family of resist-dyeing methods in which cloth is folded, bound, stitched or clamped before dyeing. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/shibori)
- **Sungudi**: Tie-dyed cotton of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, with a pattern of fine dots made by tying the cloth. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/sungudi)
- **Kasuti**: A counted-thread embroidery of Karnataka, worked in tiny stitches on both faces of the cloth. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/kasuti)
- **Chikankari**: White-on-white embroidery of Lucknow, worked in many stitches, including the shadow stitch. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/chikankari)
- **Kantha**: Running-stitch embroidery of Bengal and Bangladesh, first made by stitching layers of old cloth together. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/kantha)
- **Phulkari**: Punjabi embroidery that covers cloth in bright silk thread, worked from the back in long stitches. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/phulkari)
- **Zardozi**: Heavy metal-thread embroidery, in which gold or silver wire is couched on to cloth with small stitches. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/zardozi)
- **Aari**: Embroidery done with a hooked needle that makes quick chain stitch, worked on a stretched frame. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/aari)
- **Gota patti**: A Rajasthani craft of sewing small shapes of flat metallic ribbon on to cloth as appliqué. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/gota-patti)
- **Mirror work**: Embroidery that holds small round mirrors on cloth with interlaced stitches, from Gujarat and Rajasthan. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/mirror-work)
- **Bead work**: Decoration with beads, pearls and sequins stitched on to cloth, often together with zardozi or aari. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/bead-work)
- **Patchwork**: Cloth made by joining small pieces of different fabrics, often as borders or whole sarees in craft work. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/patchwork)
- **Appliqué**: Decoration made by sewing shapes of one cloth on to another. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/applique)
- **Sozni**: Very fine needle embroidery of Kashmir, worked in tiny stitches on shawls and sarees. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/sozni)
- **Tilla**: Metal-thread embroidery of Kashmir, in gold or silver coloured thread on shawls and cloth. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/tilla)
- **Madhubani**: A painting tradition of Mithila in Bihar, now also painted by hand on silk and cotton sarees. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/madhubani)
- **Paisley**: A curved teardrop motif, the best known design in saree weaving and printing. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/paisley)
- **Kairi**: The mango motif, a curved teardrop shape found across Indian weaving and embroidery. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/kairi)
- **Peacock**: A peacock motif, a favourite of Indian weavers, found in the pallu, the border and the body. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/peacock)
- **Lotus**: A lotus flower motif, a symbol of purity, woven into borders, buttas and the pallu. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/lotus)
- **Hamsa**: A swan or goose motif, a bird of Indian myth, often woven in pairs on borders and the body. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/hamsa)
- **Rudraksha**: A motif of small round beads, named for the sacred seed of Shiva, found in Kanchipuram sarees. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/rudraksha)
- **Parrot**: A parrot motif, a symbol of love and good news, often woven in pairs in Paithani and other sarees. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/parrot)
- **Elephant**: An elephant motif, a sign of royalty and good fortune, woven or printed in rows or in processions. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/elephant)
- **Temple border**: A border of stepped triangles that recalls the outline of a South Indian temple tower. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/temple-border)
- **Kalga**: A plume-shaped motif, close to the paisley, used in Banarasi and other brocades. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/kalga)
- **Jaal**: A pattern of an all-over network of vines, flowers or shapes that covers the saree's field. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/jaal)
- **Jangla**: A Banarasi design of dense, winding vines and flowers that fills the whole saree like a jungle. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/jangla)
- **Shikargah**: A Banarasi brocade design that shows a hunt, with animals, hunters and trees among flowers and vines. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/shikargah)
- **Meenakari**: A technique of enamel on metal that gave its name to Banarasi weaving in several bright silk colours over zari. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/meenakari)
- **Trousseau**: The set of clothes and linen that a bride brings or is given for her married life, in which sarees have a central place. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/trousseau)
- **Panetar**: A Gujarati wedding saree in white or ivory with a red border, traditionally worn by the bride. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/panetar)
- **Gharchola**: A Gujarati bridal bandhani saree, red with a grid of small squares, each holding a motif. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/gharchola)
- **Paithani**: A Maharashtrian silk saree from Paithan and Yeola, woven with zari in a tapestry technique, known for its peacock pallu. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/paithani)
- **Onakodi**: The new cloth given as a gift at Onam in Kerala, by elders to the younger members of a family. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/onakodi)
- **Kasavu**: The gold zari border of Kerala, and the cream handloom cotton saree and set-mundu that carry it. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/kasavu)
- **Sari or saree**: Two English spellings of the same garment, taken from the Sanskrit word for a strip of cloth. (https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/glossary/sari-vs-saree)

## Sarees
- [Sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/sari), India: A single unstitched length of cloth, tucked at the waist and slung over one shoulder
- [Khandua](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/khandua), India: An Odisha ikat silk saree woven with temple verses and auspicious motifs
- [Bandhani](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/bandhani), India: Tie-dyed cloth dotted with small tied knots, made in Gujarat and Rajasthan
- [Pasapali sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/pasapali-sari), India: A handloom ikat saree from Odisha with chess-board checks in contrasting colours.
- [Mundum neriyathum](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/mundum-neriyatum), India: A two-piece white cotton cloth of Kerala, worn with a golden border called kasavu
- [Chanderi sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/chanderi-sari), India: A silk sari woven in Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh, with gold and silver zari
- [Mundu](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/mundu), India: A cotton cloth wrapped at the waist, edged with the thicker woven line called the kara
- [Kimkhwab](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kimkhwab), India: A heavy silk brocade woven with gold and silver yarns, famed in Mughal India
- [Jamawar](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/jamawar), India: A brocaded shawl cloth from Kashmir, once sold by the yard and woven in pashmina
- [Tansukh cloth](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/tansukh-cloth), India: A fine, soft muslin-class cotton of medieval India, made into bodices, skirts and saris
- [Pathin](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/pathin), India: A striped wrap skirt of the Hajong people, worn from bust to calf in Northeast India
- [Malda silk](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/malda-silk), India: A soft, golden-yellow silk yarn from Malda district, West Bengal, woven into sarees
- [Abrawan](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/abrawan), Bangladesh: A legendary, sheer muslin from Dacca named after flowing water
- [Tsüngkotepsü](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/tsungkotepsu), India: A black and red Ao Naga warrior shawl with a white band of animal and star motifs
- [Shantiniketan batik](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/shantiniketan-batik), India: Hand-painted batik from Shantiniketan in Bengal, its colours mixed from leaf and bark
- [Sarong](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/sarong), Indonesia: A wrapped tube of cloth worn at the waist, from the Malay world to Kerala and Somalia
- [Eri silk](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/eri-silk), India: A wild silk from northeast India, spun from cocoons the moth has left
- [Osariya](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/osariya), Sri Lanka: A cotton sari with a frilled waist and full blouse, the national dress of Sri Lanka
- [Patola sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/patola-sari), India: A double ikat silk saree from Patan, Gujarat, dyed and knotted before it is woven
- [Moirang Phee](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/moirang-phee), India: A Manipur handloom with stepped tooth borders woven from both edges toward the centre
- [Madras](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/madras), India: A light handwoven cotton cloth of bright checks, named after the city of Chennai
- [Odisha Ikat](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/odisha-ikat), India: Silk tied, dyed and woven in Odisha villages into saris with hazy, feathered edges
- [Pheichom](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/pheichom), India: A men's wrap of the Meitei people of Manipur, worn like the dhoti, in cotton or silk
- [Sindhi embroidery](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/sindhi-embroidery), Pakistan: Needlework and mirror embroidery crafted across the desert communities of Sindh
- [Kanchipuram sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kanchipuram-silk-sari), India: A silk sari from Kanchipuram with a separate contrast border locked onto the body
- [Kandangi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kandangi), India: A checked cotton saree from Chettinad, dyed in earthy colours with broad borders
- [Paithani](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/paithani), India: A Maharashtrian handwoven silk sari with interlocking tapestry borders and peacock motifs
- [Pochampally sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/pochampally-sari), India: A Telangana handloom saree whose geometric motifs are dyed into the yarn before weaving
- [Uppada Jamdani sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/uppada-jamdani-sari), India: A light handwoven silk sari from Uppada, Andhra Pradesh, patterned in the jamdani way
- [Mangalagiri sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/mangalagiri-sarees-and-fabrics), India: A plain-bodied cotton sari from Andhra Pradesh with zari on the border
- [Handloom sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/handloom-sari), India: Saris woven by hand on pit looms in India and Bangladesh
- [Songket](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/songket), Indonesia: A hand-woven brocade cloth from Sumatra and the Malay world, with gold or silver thread
- [Ikat](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/ikat), Indonesia: Yarns are tied and dyed before weaving, giving the cloth a softly blurred pattern
- [Tant sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/tant-sari), India: A light, near-transparent cotton sari woven in Bengal, suited to hot, humid weather
- [Bomkai sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/bomkai-sari), India: An Odisha handloom saree with extra-weft threadwork, woven in cotton and silk
- [Banarasi sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/banarasi-sari), India: A heavy silk brocade saree woven with gold and silver zari in Varanasi
- [Sambalpuri saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/sambalpuri-sari), India: An Odisha tie-dyed ikat saree with symmetrical patterns mirrored on both sides
- [Gamosa](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/gamosa), India: A white cotton cloth with a red border from Assam, woven for Bihu, prayer and daily use
- [Tangail saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/tangail-saree), Bangladesh: A Bengal handloom saree in cotton or silk, known for stepped extra-weft patterns.
- [Srikalahasti Kalamkari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/srikalahasti-kalamkari), India: Freehand pen-drawn cloth art from Srikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh, painted with natural dyes
- [Brocade](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/brocade), China: A decorative shuttle-woven silk fabric patterned with raised supplementary-weft motifs
- [Resist dyeing](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/resist-dyeing), India: Cloth patterned by keeping dye off part of the fabric with wax, paste, ties or clamps
- [Langa voni](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/langa-voni), India: A two-piece half sari worn by girls in South India, a skirt with a short diagonal drape
- [Kashta sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kasta-sari), India: A traditional nine-yard Maharashtrian drape tucked at the back like a dhoti
- [Ajrak](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/ajrak), Pakistan: Geometric block-printed cloth dyed in deep indigo and crimson
- [Nakshi kantha](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/nakshi-kantha), Bangladesh: An embroidered quilt from Bengal, stitched from old sarees with a simple running stitch.
- [Tenun](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/tenun), Indonesia: Handwoven Indonesian cloth created with ancient ikat and supplementary metallic threads
- [Kachchh shawl](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kachchh-shawl), India: A dense wool shawl handwoven in Kutch, Gujarat, once traded for fleece and grain.
- [Gopalpur tussar silk](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/gopalpur-tussar-silk), India: Handwoven tussar silk from a Jajpur village in Odisha, made into saris and shawls
- [Banarasi sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/silk-industry-in-varanasi), India: Fine silk sari of Varanasi, hand-woven at home with zari work for weddings
- [Kovai Cora cotton](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kovai-cora-cotton), India: A handwoven cotton-silk saree from Coimbatore with bright borders
- [Mashru](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/mashru), India: A heavy hand-woven satin with a silk face over cotton, woven in Punjab and Sindh
- [Murshidabad silk](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/murshidabad-silk), India: Fine, light silk from Murshidabad in West Bengal, woven mostly into saris
- [Dharmavaram silk sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/dharmavaram-silk-sari), India: A handwoven Andhra silk sari in mulberry silk and zari, made only on pit looms
- [Khes](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/khes), India: A thick hand-woven cotton blanket cloth from Punjab, checked and worn as a winter wrap.
- [Garad sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/garad-sari), India: A fine silk sari woven on pit looms in Murshidabad and Birbhum, worn at Durga Puja
- [Panung](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/panung), Thailand: A cotton strip wrapped at the waist and falling below the knees, worn in Thailand
- [Chikankari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/chikankari), India: White thread hand embroidery from Lucknow, stitched on pale, sheer cloth
- [Maheshwari saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/maheshwari-saree), India: A handloom saree from Maheshwar, woven in cotton, silk and zari with local motifs
- [Sari-inspired dress](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/sari-inspired-dress), India: A dress that borrows the sari's drape, ornament and colour
- [Chattayum mundum](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/chattayum-mundum), India: A two-piece white cotton dress of Kerala's Syrian Christian women
- [Shalu sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/shalu), India: A Banaras sari made with silk from two weaving traditions, worn by brides in Maharashtra
- [Khadi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/khadi), India: Hand-spun and hand-woven cloth from the subcontinent, tied to the swadeshi movement
- [Tangaliya shawl](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/tangaliya-shawl), India: A Gujarat shawl woven on pit looms, its dots raised by knots of contrast thread
- [Lungi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/lungi), India: A cloth tube or sheet tied at the waist, worn across South and Southeast Asia
- [Arani silk saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/arani-silk-sarees), India: A handloom silk saree from Arani, Tamil Nadu, known for its zari work
- [Korial sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/korial-sari), India: A red-bordered mulberry silk saree woven on hand looms in West Bengal
- [Koorai silk sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/koorai-silk-sari), India: A nine-yard silk-cotton bridal sari with small checks, woven at Koranad in Tamil Nadu
- [Assam silk](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/assam-silk), India: Golden muga, white pat and warm eri silks, reared and hand-woven in Assam
- [Puttapaka saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/puttapaka-saree), India: A silk double-ikat saree tied and dyed by hand in Puttapaka village, Nalgonda.
- [Balaramapuram handloom](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/balaramapuram-handlooms), India: A fine undyed cotton weave with a golden kasavu zari border, hand-woven in Kerala
- [Kasaragod saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kasaragod-saree), India: A hard-wearing handloom cotton saree from Kasaragod district in Kerala
- [Chendamangalam saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/chendamangalam-saree), India: A fine cotton saree with a thin black tamarind-leaf border, handwoven in Kerala.
- [Bagh print](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/bagh-print), India: Hand block printing with natural red and black dyes from a village on the Bagh river
- [Lambada embroidery](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/lambada-embroidery), India: Mirror-and-cowrie hand embroidery by Banjara women of Karnataka and Telangana
- [Himroo](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/himroo), India: A silk and cotton fabric from Aurangabad that reworks the royal kinkhwab brocade
- [Kani shawl](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kani-shawl), India: A pashmina shawl woven on a handloom with small wooden spools, from Kanihama in Kashmir.
- [Gota patti](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/gota-patti), India: Rajasthani applique embroidery that stitches down ribbons of gold and silver
- [Sujini embroidery](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/sujini-embroidery), India: A Bihar quilt craft where women stitch stories with a simple running stitch
- [Kutch embroidery](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kutch-embroidery), India: Hand-stitched mirror work from Kutch, Gujarat, made by women of its tribal communities
- [Agrun](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/agrun), India: A shawl-like festive wrap of the Hajong people, brocaded in silks with birds and flowers.
- [Pedana Kalamkari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/pedana-kalamkari), India: Hand block-printing with plant dyes, centred on Pedana town in Andhra Pradesh
- [Dorea](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/dorea), India: A light, yarn-dyed striped cloth of Mughal-era India, woven in cotton and tussar.
- [Matka](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/matka-silk), India: A coarse silk spun from pierced cocoons, woven in the Bengal region
- [Gazzi cloth](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/gazzi-cloth), India: A coarse handloom cotton from Punjab, once sent in bulk to Afghan markets.
- [Begampuri saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/begampuri-saree), India: Cotton handloom saree from Begampur in West Bengal, woven with a contrasting border
- [Bafta](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/bafta-cloth), India: A plain-woven cotton calico from Gujarat, woven at Bharuch and traded far and wide
- [Dhakai](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/dhakai), Bangladesh: A cotton saree woven in Dhaka, Bangladesh, its patterns drawn from nature and alpana
- [Acheik](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/acheik), Myanmar: Myanmar's multi-shuttle silk weave of waves and stripes, made into paso and htamein
- [Geringsing](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/geringsing), Indonesia: A sacred double ikat cloth woven only in Tenganan, a Bali Aga village in Bali
- [Woodblock printing on textiles](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/woodblock-printing-on-textiles), India: Patterns pressed onto cloth with hand-carved wooden blocks, the chhapa of South Asia.
- [Sumba textiles](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/textiles-of-sumba), Indonesia: Ikat cloths and tube skirts from a small island in eastern Indonesia, woven by women
- [Tripuri dress](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/tripuri-dress), India: A woven cotton wrap from Tripura, with its own pattern for each Tripuri clan.
- [Chintz](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/chintz), India: A painted or woodblock-printed floral cotton cloth originating in Golconda
- [Shaphee Lanphee](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/shaphee-lanphee), India: A heavy black and red embroidered textile woven by Meitei craftswomen in Manipur
- [Muslin](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/muslin), Bangladesh: A gossamer plain-weave cotton fabric historically spun and woven across Bengal
- [Ilkal sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/ilkal-sari), India: A cotton saree with a loop-joined silk pallu and broad red border, from Ilkal, Karnataka
- [Khit](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/khit), Thailand: A handwoven cloth from Isan, Thailand, with geometric patterns that seem to float.
- [Leirum Phee](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/leirum-phee), India: A coarse cotton shawl from Manipur, black and red on white, given to Meitei brides
- [Zardozi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/zardozi), India: Heavy gold and silver metal embroidery on silk, satin or velvet, from Iran to India
- [Berhampur Patta](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/berhampur-patta), India: Odisha silk saree with a phoda kumbha temple border and zari edging, GI protected
- [Dokhona](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/dokhona), India: A wrap-around cloth worn by Boro women of Assam, usually yellow, with woven Agor designs
- [Dukula](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/dukula), India: An ancient Indian cloth of tree-bark fibre, fine like linen and likened to silk
- [Tussar silk](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/tussar-silk), India: Wild silk with a deep gold sheen, reeled from forest cocoons, woven into sarees in India
- [Pat silk](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/pat-silk), India: A glossy, naturally white mulberry silk from Assam, woven into mekhelas and chadars
- [Telia Rumal](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/telia-rumal), India: Oil-treated yarn, ikat dyeing and plant colours, from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
- [Phool Patti ka Kaam](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/phool-patti-ka-kaam), India: Flowers and leaves cut from cloth and hemmed on, an appliqué craft of Aligarh and Rampur
- [Chaubandi Cholo](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/chaubandi-cholo), Nepal: A cotton blouse from Nepal, wrapped on and often printed in red and white
- [Phanek](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/phanek), India: A traditional Meitei wraparound skirt woven with striped borders in Manipur
- [Toda embroidery](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/toda-embroidery), India: Red and black thread embroidery on white cotton, worked by Toda women in the Nilgiris
- [Dhoti](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/dhoti), India: An unstitched cloth tied at the waist and worn to the ankle, the men's answer to the sari
- [Antariya](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/antariya), India: Ancient India's long strip of cloth for the lower body, pleated in front
- [Thai silk](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/thai-silk), Thailand: Hand-woven Thai silk with a two-tone sheen, from glossy mulberry and matte eri cocoons
- [Kasuti](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kasuti), India: Counted-thread folk embroidery from Karnataka, stitched on Ilkal and Mysore silk sarees
- [Madisar](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/madisar), India: A nine-yard Tamil drape tied close to a dhoti, worn by Brahmin women for rites
- [Gadwal sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/gadwal-sari), India: A handwoven Telangana sari with a cotton body, a silk border and a zari pallu
- [Balinese textiles](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/balinese-textiles), Indonesia: The woven cloths of Bali, from sacred double ikat to gold-dusted ceremony wear
- [Uttariya](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/uttariya), India: An unstitched upper-body cloth from ancient India, wrapped over the shoulder or arms
- [Mekhela chador](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/mekhela-sador), India: Assam's two-piece dress: a pleated tube skirt, the mekhela, and a draped sador
- [Longyi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/longyi), Myanmar: A cloth tube worn at the waist in Myanmar, about two metres long
- [Surat zari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/surat-zari), India: Metal-wrapped thread made in Surat and woven into silk sarees across India
- [Thirubuvanam silk sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/thirubuvanam-silk-sari), India: Silk saree from a Thanjavur district town, its border and pallu dense with zari
- [Kebaya](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kebaya), Indonesia: A front-opening blouse worn across Southeast Asia with a sarong or kain
- [Leheriya](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/leheriya), India: A Rajasthani tie-dye whose slanting stripes echo wind ripples on desert sand
- [Grameen check](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/grameen-check), Bangladesh: Bright checked cotton from Bangladesh, woven by village weavers in traditional ways
- [Kotpad handloom fabric](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kotpad-handloom-fabrics), India: Cotton and tussar sarees dyed with aul-root dye, handwoven in Koraput, Odisha
- [Dupatta](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/dupatta), India: A versatile long scarf and veil draped with traditional ensembles across South Asia
- [Khara Dupatta](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/khara-dupatta), India: A six-yard embroidered net veil draped over a wedding ensemble in Hyderabad
- [Wangkhei Phee](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/wangkhei-phee), India: A see-through white cotton fabric from Manipur, woven by women with hand-woven motifs
- [Jamdani](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/jamdani), Bangladesh: A sheer cotton muslin saree decorated with hand-woven supplementary weft motifs
- [T'nalak](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/t-nalak), Philippines: A sacred abaca ikat cloth woven from dreamt patterns by Tboli women in Mindanao
- [Kalamkari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kalamkari), India: Cloth art from Andhra Pradesh, drawn with a pen or blocks and dyed with plant colours
- [Batik](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/batik), Indonesia: A wax-resist way of dyeing cloth, most developed on the island of Java
- [Bhagalpuri silk](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/bhagalpuri-silk), India: A wild-silk saree woven in Bhagalpur, the city called Silk City
- [Pipili appliqué work](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/pipili-applique-work), India: A stitched-cloth craft from Pipili, Odisha, born to dress the chariots of Jagannath
- [Bhagalpur sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/bhagalpur-sari), India: A tussar silk saree woven on handlooms in Bhagalpur, set apart by its own dyeing method
- [Kasavu](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kasavu), India: Kerala's off-white cotton cloth with a fine gold or silver border woven into it
- [Sinh](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/sinh), Laos: A handwoven tube skirt of Laos and northern Thailand, its hem telling where it was made
- [Batik Parang](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/parang-batik), Indonesia: A diagonal wave batik pattern from Java, steeped in royal philosophy
- [Habaspuri sari](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/habaspuri-sari), India: A cotton handloom saree from Kalahandi, Odisha, worked with tie-dye and tribal motifs
- [Tangail saree](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/tangail-saree-west-bengal), Bangladesh: A Bengal handloom saree with stepped extra-weft patterns, woven in cotton and silk
- [Toga](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/toga), Italy: A draped semicircular woollen cloth worn by citizens in ancient Rome
- [Himation](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/himation), Greece: An ancient Greek draped mantle of woven wool or linen, worn without pins
- [Chlamys](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/chlamys), Greece: An ancient Greek and Byzantine draped cloak made from a single rectangular cloth
- [Kanga](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kanga), Tanzania: A light cotton wrap from East Africa framed with printed borders and Swahili proverbs
- [Kaunakes](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kaunakes), Iraq: An ancient Mesopotamian wrapped skirt and mantle woven with tufted wool
- [Ulos](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/ulos), Indonesia: A traditional hand-woven Batak textile draped and gifted across North Sumatra
- [Capulana](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/capulana), Mozambique: A versatile Mozambican wrapped cloth with historic trade roots and symbolic patterns
- [Kitenge](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kitenge), Kenya: A printed African wrap cloth worn around the waist or chest and used as everyday dress
- [Kemben](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/kemben), Indonesia: A shoulder-baring torso wrap from Java and Bali, wound from a length of kain cloth
- [Melhfa](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/melhfa), Mauritania: A cotton rectangle wound from head to toe against desert sun, sand and cold
- [Sbai](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/sbai), Cambodia: A shawl-like breast cloth derived from the sari, worn over one shoulder in Southeast Asia
- [Dumdyam](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/dumdyam), Bhutan: An ankle-length draped dress of smooth cotton or silk worn by Lepcha women
- [Comilla khadi](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/khadi-industry-of-comilla), Bangladesh: Hand-spun, hand-woven cloth from Comilla, Bangladesh, once woven on pit looms
- [Onnara](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/onnara), India: A handloom cotton underwrap from Kerala, tied tight beneath the saree or mundu
- [Gaji](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/gaji), India: A coarse, durable handwoven cotton or silk fabric draped as a sari in winter
- [Patadyong](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/patadyong), Philippines: An indigenous wrap skirt and versatile tube garment woven in the Philippines
- [Tarpaya](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/tarpaya), India: An ancient Indian fine silk or linen cloth worn as a ritual lower garment
- [Rogan painting](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/rogan-painting), India: Castor-oil paint drawn with a metal stylus to form mirrored patterns on fabric
- [Vadhuya](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/vadhuya), India: An ancient bridal garment from Vedic India fashioned from cotton, wool, and hide
- [Saraiki ajrak](https://pallu.cpn.cleartrust.cc/s/saraiki-ajrak), Pakistan: A block-printed geometric shawl worn across southern Punjab in Pakistan