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EveryPallu

Sarees of North India

Banaras brocade, Lucknow chikankari, Punjab phulkari and Kashmir embroidery: the saree of the Gangetic plain and the hills. 10 sarees on EveryPallu so far.

Typical motifs

Brocade

Buta

Chikankari

Phulkari

Paisley

States and territories

Jammu and Kashmir Ladakh Himachal Pradesh Punjab Haryana Delhi Uttarakhand Uttar Pradesh

Weaving centres

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Kani shawl: Shahidkashmir, CC BY-SA 4.0, source

The weekly drape

Every Monday: seven sarees you may not know, what is being worn this week, and one drape explained step by step.