Sarees beginning with M
14 sarees under M.
🇮🇳 IndiaMadisarமடிசார்
A nine-yard Tamil drape tied close to a dhoti, worn by Brahmin women for ritesSilk
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreMadras
A light handwoven cotton cloth of bright checks, named after the city of ChennaiCotton · Checks and stripes · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaMaheshwari saree
A handloom saree from Maheshwar, woven in cotton, silk and zari with local motifsSilk · Zari work
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMalda silk
A soft, golden-yellow silk yarn from Malda district, West Bengal, woven into sareesSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaMangalagiri sari
A cotton saree from a temple town in Andhra Pradesh, with a zari border and a plain bodyCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMashru
A heavy hand-woven satin with a silk face over cotton, woven in Punjab and SindhSilk
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMatka
A coarse silk spun from pierced cocoons, woven in the Bengal regionSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaMekhela chador
Assam's two-piece dress: a pleated tube skirt, the mekhela, and a draped sadorSilk
🇲🇷 Mauritania and 5 moreMelhfa
A cotton rectangle wound from head to toe against desert sun, sand and coldCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaMoirang Phee
A Manipur handloom with stepped tooth borders woven from both edges toward the centreCotton
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMundumuṇṭŭ
A cotton cloth wrapped at the waist, edged with the thicker woven line called the karaCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaMundum neriyathumമുണ്ട് നേരിയത്
A two-piece white cotton cloth of Kerala, worn with a golden border called kasavuCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaMurshidabad silkমুর্শিদাবাদী রেশম
Fine, light silk from Murshidabad in West Bengal, woven mostly into sarisSilk · Zari work · Jamdani
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 2 moreMuslin
A gossamer plain-weave cotton fabric historically spun and woven across BengalCotton · Jamdani
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreMadras
A light handwoven cotton cloth of bright checks, named after the city of ChennaiCotton · Checks and stripes · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaMaheshwari saree
A handloom saree from Maheshwar, woven in cotton, silk and zari with local motifsSilk · Zari work
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMalda silk
A soft, golden-yellow silk yarn from Malda district, West Bengal, woven into sareesSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaMangalagiri sari
A cotton saree from a temple town in Andhra Pradesh, with a zari border and a plain bodyCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMashru
A heavy hand-woven satin with a silk face over cotton, woven in Punjab and SindhSilk
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMatka
A coarse silk spun from pierced cocoons, woven in the Bengal regionSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaMekhela chador
Assam's two-piece dress: a pleated tube skirt, the mekhela, and a draped sadorSilk
🇲🇷 Mauritania and 5 moreMelhfa
A cotton rectangle wound from head to toe against desert sun, sand and coldCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaMoirang Phee
A Manipur handloom with stepped tooth borders woven from both edges toward the centreCotton
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMundumuṇṭŭ
A cotton cloth wrapped at the waist, edged with the thicker woven line called the karaCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaMundum neriyathumമുണ്ട് നേരിയത്
A two-piece white cotton cloth of Kerala, worn with a golden border called kasavuCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaMurshidabad silkমুর্শিদাবাদী রেশম
Fine, light silk from Murshidabad in West Bengal, woven mostly into sarisSilk · Zari work · Jamdani
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 2 moreMuslin
A gossamer plain-weave cotton fabric historically spun and woven across BengalCotton · Jamdani
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Garad sari: Bongan, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mundum neriyathum: L. Anantha Krishna Iyer (Diwan Bahadur), Public domain, source
- Mundu: Raja Ravi Varma, Public domain, source
- Madras: Shweta Venkateswaran, CC0, source
- Muslin: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Mekhela chador: Deepraj, CC BY 2.5, source
- Mashru: Edwin Lord Weeks, Public domain, source