The sarees of Bihar
5 sarees tied to Bihar: woven there, or made its own.
Motifs of Bihar
🇮🇳 IndiaSujini embroidery
A Bihar quilt craft where women stitch stories with a simple running stitchCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreKhadi
Hand-spun woven cloth from cotton and other fibres, promoted in India's independence movementCotton
🇮🇳 India and 3 moreTussar silkkosa (Sanskrit)
A wild silk with a dull gold sheen, gathered in forests and woven into sareesSilk · Kantha
🇮🇳 India and 4 moreEri silk
A wild silk from northeast India, spun from cocoons the moth has leftEri
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreRogan painting
A cloth-painting craft from Gujarat and Afghanistan, worked in thick oil paint with a stylusHand painting · Block print
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreKhadi
Hand-spun woven cloth from cotton and other fibres, promoted in India's independence movementCotton
🇮🇳 India and 3 moreTussar silkkosa (Sanskrit)
A wild silk with a dull gold sheen, gathered in forests and woven into sareesSilk · Kantha
🇮🇳 India and 4 moreEri silk
A wild silk from northeast India, spun from cocoons the moth has leftEri
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreRogan painting
A cloth-painting craft from Gujarat and Afghanistan, worked in thick oil paint with a stylusHand painting · Block print
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tussar silk: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Eri silk: Simtastic01, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Khadi: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Rogan painting: Wiki-uk, CC BY-SA 3.0, source