Sarees of East India
Bengal jamdani, tant and baluchari, Odisha ikat and Bomkai, Bhagalpur silk and Madhubani painting. 25 sarees on EveryPallu so far.
Typical motifs
States and territories
Weaving centres
Murshidabad 4Bhagalpur 3Sonepur 3Bargarh 2Barpali 2Birbhum 2Malda 2Sambalpur 2Balangir 1Begampur 1Bhusra 1Bishnupur 1Bomkai 1Boudh 1Brahmapur 1Bukhara 1Chicheguda 1Cossimbazar 1Cuttack 1Dakra 1Gopalpur 1Habaspur 1Jiaganj 1Kalahandi 1Kasimbazar 1Koraput 1Kotpad 1Madhubani 1Maniabandha 1Murarai 1Muzaffarpur 1Nuapatana 1Nuapatna 1Pipili 1Raghunathganj 1Samarkand 1Shantiniketan 1Tenganan 1BalucharBerhampurCuttack districtDhaniakhaliKolkataNadiaNalandaSantiniketanSantipur
🇮🇳 IndiaGarad sariগরদ শাড়ি
A fine silk sari woven on pit looms in Murshidabad and Birbhum, worn at Durga PujaSilk · Zari work · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaKhandua
An Odisha ikat silk saree woven with temple verses and auspicious motifsSilk · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaPasapali sari
A handloom ikat saree from Odisha with chess-board checks in contrasting colours.Ikat · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMalda silk
A soft, golden-yellow silk yarn from Malda district, West Bengal, woven into sareesSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaShantiniketan batik
Hand-painted batik from Shantiniketan in Bengal, its colours mixed from leaf and barkBatik · Hand painting
🇮🇳 IndiaOdisha Ikat
Silk tied, dyed and woven in Odisha villages into saris with hazy, feathered edgesSilk · Ikat · Tie-dye
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 5 moreIkat
Yarns are tied and dyed before weaving, giving the cloth a softly blurred patternSilk · Ikat
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreTant sari
A light, near-transparent cotton sari woven in Bengal, suited to hot, humid weatherCotton · Jamdani · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaKorial sariকোরিয়াল শাড়ি
A red-bordered mulberry silk saree woven on hand looms in West BengalSilk · Jamdani · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaSujini embroidery
A Bihar quilt craft where women stitch stories with a simple running stitchCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaDorea
A light, yarn-dyed striped cloth of Mughal-era India, woven in cotton and tussar.Cotton · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMatka
A coarse silk spun from pierced cocoons, woven in the Bengal regionSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaBegampuri sareeবেগমপুরী শাড়ি
Cotton handloom saree from Begampur in West Bengal, woven with a contrasting borderCotton · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaBerhampur Patta
Odisha silk saree with a phoda kumbha temple border and zari edging, GI protectedSilk · Zari work · Temple border
🇮🇳 IndiaDukula
An ancient Indian cloth of tree-bark fibre, fine like linen and likened to silkLinen
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreTussar silkkosa
Wild silk with a deep gold sheen, reeled from forest cocoons, woven into sarees in IndiaTussar · Kantha · Hand painting
🇮🇳 IndiaKotpad handloom fabric
Cotton and tussar sarees dyed with aul-root dye, handwoven in Koraput, OdishaCotton · Jamdani
🇮🇳 IndiaBhagalpuri silk
A wild-silk saree woven in Bhagalpur, the city called Silk CityTussar
🇮🇳 IndiaPipili appliqué workଚାନ୍ଦୁଆ
A stitched-cloth craft from Pipili, Odisha, born to dress the chariots of JagannathCotton · Appliqué · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaBhagalpur sari
A tussar silk saree woven on handlooms in Bhagalpur, set apart by its own dyeing methodTussar
🇮🇳 IndiaHabaspuri sari
A cotton handloom saree from Kalahandi, Odisha, worked with tie-dye and tribal motifsCotton · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaSambalpuri saree
An Odisha tie-dyed ikat saree with symmetrical patterns mirrored on both sidesCotton · Ikat · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaGopalpur tussar silkଗୋପାଳପୁର ଟସର ବସ୍ତ୍ର
Handwoven tussar silk from a Jajpur village in Odisha, made into saris and shawlsTussar · Ikat · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaMurshidabad silkমুর্শিদাবাদী রেশম
Fine, light silk from Murshidabad in West Bengal, woven mostly into sarisSilk · Zari work · Jamdani
🇮🇳 IndiaBomkai sari
An Odisha handloom saree with extra-weft threadwork, woven in cotton and silkCotton · Zari work
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Garad sari: Bongan, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pasapali sari: Prateek Pattanaik, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Shantiniketan batik: Sumita Arup, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Odisha Ikat: Atudu, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ikat: Midori, CC BY 3.0, source
- Tant sari: Billjones94, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tussar silk: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Sambalpuri saree: Rahul191313, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bomkai sari: Nayansatya, CC BY 3.0, source