Results for "brocade"
11 sarees found.
- Brocade Glossary
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreBrocade
A decorative shuttle-woven silk fabric patterned with raised supplementary-weft motifsSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaKimkhwab
A heavy silk brocade woven with gold and silver yarns, famed in Mughal IndiaSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaJamawar
A brocaded shawl cloth from Kashmir, once sold by the yard and woven in pashminaWool · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaOdisha Ikat
Silk tied, dyed and woven in Odisha villages into saris with hazy, feathered edgesSilk · Ikat · Tie-dye
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 2 moreSongketᬲᭀᬂᬓᬾᬢ᭄
A hand-woven brocade from the Malay world, figured in gold or silver threadSilk · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaHimroo
A silk and cotton fabric from Aurangabad that reworks the royal kinkhwab brocadeSilk · Brocade
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreAgrun
A shawl-like festive wrap of the Hajong people, brocaded in silks with birds and flowers.Silk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 4 moreKebayaꦏꦼꦧꦪ
A front-opening blouse worn across Southeast Asia with a sarong or kainCotton · Embroidery · Batik
🇮🇳 IndiaBanarasi sari
A heavy silk brocade saree woven with gold and silver zari in VaranasiSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaChanderi sari
A silk sari woven in Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh, with gold and silver zariSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaBanarasi sari
Fine silk sari of Varanasi, hand-woven at home with zari work for weddingsSilk · Brocade · Zari work
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Chanderi sari: India Untravelled, CC BY 2.0, source
- Odisha Ikat: Atudu, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Songket: Rijksmuseum, CC0, source
- Himroo: RubyGoes, CC BY 2.0, source
- Kebaya: Simon_sees, CC BY 2.0, source
- Banarasi sari: Ekabhishek, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Brocade: After James Lehman (England, circa 1688-1745), Public domain, source