The sarees of West Bengal
15 sarees tied to West Bengal: woven there, or made its own.
Motifs of West Bengal
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreSariसाड़ी
An unstitched cloth draped over the body, worn across the Indian subcontinentCotton · Brocade · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaMalda silk
Fine golden-yellow silk from Malda, West Bengal, woven into Baluchari and Garad sarisSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaGarad sariগরদ শাড়ি
A fine silk handloom sari from Murshidabad and Birbhum in West BengalSilk · Zari work · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaShantiniketan Batik
A hand-painted batik from Santiniketan, West Bengal, brushed with natural dyesBatik · Hand painting
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMuslin
A fine plain-weave cotton from Bengal, once sheer enough to see throughCotton
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreJamdaniজামদানি
A fine figured muslin from Bangladesh, patterned on the loom with a supplementary weftCotton · Jamdani · Brocade
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreTant sari
A light, see-through cotton saree from Bengal with a heavy borderCotton · Jamdani · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaBegampuri Sareeবেগমপুরী শাড়ি
A handloom cotton saree from Begampur, West Bengal, with a contrasting borderCotton · Checks and stripes
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreNakshi kanthaনকশি কাঁথা
An embroidered quilt from Bengal, stitched from old sarees with a simple running stitch.Cotton · Kantha · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaMurshidabad silkমুর্শিদাবাদী রেশম
A fine, light mulberry silk from Murshidabad district, West Bengal, woven mainly into sarisSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreTangail saree
A Bengal handloom saree in cotton or silk, known for stepped extra-weft patterns.Cotton · Jamdani · Brocade
🇮🇳 India and 3 moreTussar silkkosa (Sanskrit)
A wild silk with a dull gold sheen, gathered in forests and woven into sareesSilk · Kantha
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreHandloom sari
Saris woven by hand on village looms in India and BangladeshSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaKorial sariকোরিয়াল শাড়ি
A handwoven Bengal silk sari with a red border and fine designs on the anchalSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreTangail saree
A handwoven Bengali saree named for Tangail, woven in Bangladesh and West BengalCotton · Jamdani
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Rajshahi silk: Bongan, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tant sari: Billjones94, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Nakshi kantha: A junaid alam khan ( talk ), Public domain, source
- Shantiniketan Batik: Sumita Arup, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tussar silk: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Jamdani: Salim_Khandoker, CC0, source
- Tangail saree: P.K.Niyogi, Public domain, source
- Muslin: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Handloom sari: P.K.Niyogi, Public domain, source
- Sari: Suyash.dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source