Sarees of North-East India
Assam muga, eri and pat silk, mekhela chador, and the backstrap-loom textiles of the hill states. 16 sarees on EveryPallu so far.
Typical motifs
States and territories
Weaving centres
🇮🇳 IndiaPat silkপাট ৰেচম
Assam's own mulberry silk, naturally white and glossy, spun by worms fed on mulberry leavesSilk
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 5 moreSarongsarung
A tubular waist-wrap of batik or checks, worn across Asia, Africa and the Pacific.Cotton · Batik · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaMoirang Phee
A Manipur cloth with a stepped tooth motif woven in from both edgesCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaMekhela sador
A two-piece Assamese dress: a wrapped skirt and a drape, woven in muga, eri or pat silkSilk · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaAssam silk
Assam's three silks: golden muga, white pat and warm eri, woven in SualkuchiMuga
🇮🇳 IndiaPhanekꯐꯅꯦꯛ
A wrapped skirt worn by Meitei women in Manipur, woven with patterned stripesMuga · Checks and stripes · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaDokhonaदख'ना
A wrap-around cloth worn by Boro women of Assam, usually yellow, with woven Agor designsCotton · Brocade
🇮🇳 India and 4 moreEri silk
A wild silk from northeast India, spun from cocoons the moth has leftEri
🇮🇳 IndiaGamosaগামুছা
A white cotton cloth with a red border from Assam, woven for Bihu, prayer and daily useCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaTsüngkotepsü
A black and red Ao Naga warrior shawl with a white band of animal and star motifs
🇮🇳 IndiaShaphee Lanphee
A black Manipuri shawl with red borders, embroidered by hand with animals, sun and starsCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaLeirum Pheeꯂꯩꯔꯨꯝ ꯐꯤ
A rough cotton wrapper from Manipur, woven in white, black and red for Meitei weddingsCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaWangkhei Phee
A fine white cotton cloth from Manipur, woven sheer and worn for weddingsCotton · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaPheichom
A men's wrap of the Meitei people of Manipur, worn like the dhoti, in cotton or silkCotton · Block print
🇮🇳 IndiaTripuri dress
A woven cotton wrap from Tripura, with its own pattern for each Tripuri clan.Cotton
🇮🇳 India and 1 morePathin
A striped wrap skirt worn by Hajong women in Northeast India and BangladeshSilk · Checks and stripes
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Pat silk: Hiranmoy Boruah, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sarong: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mekhela sador: Deepraj, CC BY 2.5, source
- Phanek: অজয় দাস, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Dokhona: Bodoland Territorial Council, CC0, source
- Eri silk: Simtastic01, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gamosa: Priyankoo at en.wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Pheichom: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Tripuri dress: Bijayan tripura, CC0, source