Results for "handwoven"
36 sarees found.
🇮🇳 IndiaDharmavaram silk sari
A handwoven Andhra silk sari in mulberry silk and zari, made only on pit loomsSilk · Zari work · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaJamawar
A brocaded shawl cloth from Kashmir, once sold by the yard and woven in pashminaWool · Brocade
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreMadras
A light handwoven cotton cloth of bright checks, named after the city of ChennaiCotton · Checks and stripes · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaPaithani
A Maharashtrian handwoven silk sari with interlocking tapestry borders and peacock motifsSilk · Zari work · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaPochampally sari
A Telangana handloom saree whose geometric motifs are dyed into the yarn before weavingSilk · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaMangalagiri sari
A cotton saree from a temple town in Andhra Pradesh, with a zari border and a plain bodyCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreHandloom sari
Saris woven by hand on pit looms in India and BangladeshSilk · Zari work · Jamdani
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreUppada Jamdani sari
A light handwoven silk sari from Uppada, Andhra Pradesh, patterned in the jamdani waySilk · Jamdani · Zari work
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 2 moreSongketᬲᭀᬂᬓᬾᬢ᭄
A hand-woven brocade from the Malay world, figured in gold or silver threadSilk · Brocade
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreKhadi
Hand-spun and hand-woven cloth from the subcontinent, tied to the swadeshi movementCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaTangaliya shawl
A Gujarat shawl woven on pit looms, its dots raised by knots of contrast threadCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaKorial sariকোরিয়াল শাড়ি
A red-bordered mulberry silk saree woven on hand looms in West BengalSilk · Jamdani · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaKoorai silk sariகூரை பட்டு புடவை
A nine-yard silk-cotton bridal sari with small checks, woven at Koranad in Tamil NaduBlend · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaChendamangalam saree
A fine cotton saree with a thin black tamarind-leaf border, handwoven in Kerala.Cotton · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreAgrun
A shawl-like festive wrap of the Hajong people, brocaded in silks with birds and flowers.Silk · Brocade · Zari work
🇲🇲 MyanmarAcheikအချိတ်
Myanmar's multi-shuttle silk weave of waves and stripes, made into paso and htameinSilk · Brocade
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMashru
A heavy hand-woven satin with a silk face over cotton, woven in Punjab and SindhSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaMundum neriyathumമുണ്ട് നേരിയത്
A two-piece white cotton cloth of Kerala, worn with a golden border called kasavuCotton · Zari work
🇹🇭 ThailandKhitผ้าขิด
A handwoven cloth from Isan, Thailand, with geometric patterns that seem to float.Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaLeirum Pheeꯂꯩꯔꯨꯝ ꯐꯤ
A coarse cotton shawl from Manipur, black and red on white, given to Meitei bridesCotton
🇹🇭 ThailandThai silkผ้าไหมไทย
Hand-woven Thai silk with a two-tone sheen, from glossy mulberry and matte eri cocoonsSilk · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaGadwal sari
A handwoven sari from Telangana with a cotton body, silk border and zari palluSilk · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaMekhela chador
Assam's two-piece dress: a pleated tube skirt, the mekhela, and a draped sadorSilk
🇧🇩 BangladeshGrameen checkগ্রামীণ চেক
Bright checked cotton from Bangladesh, woven by village weavers in traditional waysCotton · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaKotpad handloom fabric
Cotton and tussar sarees dyed with aul-root dye, handwoven in Koraput, OdishaCotton · Jamdani
🇮🇳 IndiaWangkhei Phee
A see-through white cotton fabric from Manipur, woven by women with hand-woven motifsCotton · Jamdani
🇵🇭 PhilippinesT'nalak
A sacred abaca ikat cloth woven from dreamt patterns by Tboli women in MindanaoIkat
🇱🇦 Laos and 1 moreSinhສິ້ນ
A handwoven tube skirt of Laos and northern Thailand, its hem telling where it was madeSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaGamosaগামুছা
A white cotton cloth with a red border from Assam, woven for Bihu, prayer and daily useCotton
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreTangail saree
A Bengal handloom saree in cotton or silk, known for stepped extra-weft patterns.Cotton · Jamdani
🇮🇩 IndonesiaTenunꦠꦼꦤꦸꦤ꧀
Handwoven Indonesian cloth created with ancient ikat and supplementary metallic threadsCotton · Ikat · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaKachchh shawldhabla
A dense wool shawl handwoven in Kutch, Gujarat, once traded for fleece and grain.Wool · Embroidery · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaGopalpur tussar silkଗୋପାଳପୁର ଟସର ବସ୍ତ୍ର
Handwoven tussar silk from a Jajpur village in Odisha, made into saris and shawlsTussar · Ikat · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaKovai Cora cotton
A handwoven cotton-silk saree from Coimbatore with bright bordersCotton · Zari work · Brocade
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreTangail saree
A Bengal handloom saree with stepped extra-weft patterns, woven in cotton and silkCotton · Jamdani · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaGaji
A coarse, durable handwoven cotton or silk fabric draped as a sari in winterCotton
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Mundum neriyathum: L. Anantha Krishna Iyer (Diwan Bahadur), Public domain, source
- Madras: Shweta Venkateswaran, CC0, source
- Paithani: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Pochampally sari: Hermann Linde, Public domain, source
- Handloom sari: P.K.Niyogi, Public domain, source
- Songket: Rijksmuseum, CC0, source
- Khadi: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Koorai silk sari: En.saravanan, CC BY 4.0, source
- Chendamangalam saree: Malluchronicle, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Acheik: Chenzeyan29, CC0, source
- Tangail saree: P.K.Niyogi, Public domain, source
- Khit: Pawyilee, Public domain, source
- Thai silk: JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mekhela chador: Deepraj, CC BY 2.5, source
- T'nalak: USAID Biodiversity & Forestry, Public domain, source
- Sinh: YashiWong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gamosa: Priyankoo at en.wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Tenun: Silitonga, G., Soekardi, R., and Tambunan, S., Public domain, source
- Kachchh shawl: Ekabhishek, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mashru: Edwin Lord Weeks, Public domain, source
- Dharmavaram silk sari: Ch Maheswara Raju, CC BY-SA 4.0, source