The sarees of Andhra Pradesh
9 sarees tied to Andhra Pradesh: woven there, or made its own.
Motifs of Andhra Pradesh
🇮🇳 IndiaTelia Rumal
An ikat craft that oils the yarn before dyeing it, once made at ChiralaIkat
🇮🇳 IndiaSrikalahasti kalamkari
A Kalamkari style of dyed hand-painting on cloth, made in Srikalahasti, Andhra PradeshKalamkari · Hand painting
🇮🇳 IndiaKalamkari
A pen-drawn textile art from Andhra Pradesh, coloured with natural dyesCotton · Kalamkari · Block print
🇮🇳 IndiaPedana Kalamkari
Vegetable-dyed, block-printed cloth from Pedana, near Machilipatnam in Andhra PradeshKalamkari · Block print
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMuslin
A fine plain-weave cotton from Bengal, once sheer enough to see throughCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaKasavu
A Kerala handloom cloth with fine gold or silver border lines on white cottonCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaMangalagiri sari
A cotton sari from Mangalagiri with a zari border and a plain bodyCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaDharmavaram silk sari
A handwoven Andhra silk sari in mulberry silk and zari, made only on pit loomsSilk · Zari work · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaUppada Jamdani sari
A light handwoven silk sari from Uppada, Andhra Pradesh, with motifs on both facesSilk · Jamdani · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaSrikalahasti kalamkari
A Kalamkari style of dyed hand-painting on cloth, made in Srikalahasti, Andhra PradeshKalamkari · Hand painting
🇮🇳 IndiaKalamkari
A pen-drawn textile art from Andhra Pradesh, coloured with natural dyesCotton · Kalamkari · Block print
🇮🇳 IndiaPedana Kalamkari
Vegetable-dyed, block-printed cloth from Pedana, near Machilipatnam in Andhra PradeshKalamkari · Block print
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMuslin
A fine plain-weave cotton from Bengal, once sheer enough to see throughCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaKasavu
A Kerala handloom cloth with fine gold or silver border lines on white cottonCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaMangalagiri sari
A cotton sari from Mangalagiri with a zari border and a plain bodyCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaDharmavaram silk sari
A handwoven Andhra silk sari in mulberry silk and zari, made only on pit loomsSilk · Zari work · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaUppada Jamdani sari
A light handwoven silk sari from Uppada, Andhra Pradesh, with motifs on both facesSilk · Jamdani · Zari work
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Srikalahasti kalamkari: Anilbhardwajnoida, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dharmavaram silk sari: Ch Maheswara Raju, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pedana Kalamkari: Sathishkagitha, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Muslin: Unknown author, Public domain, source