All sarees
161 sarees so far, best known first. 42 more are on the list to be written.
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreSariसाड़ी
An unstitched cloth draped over the body, worn across the Indian subcontinentCotton · Brocade · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaChanderi sari
A fine silk or cotton sari woven in Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh, with zari motifsSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaKachchh shawl
A dense wool wrap from Kutch, woven in two panels and joined with a fish stitchWool · Tie-dye · Embroidery
🇵🇰 Pakistan and 1 moreAjrakاجرڪ (Sindhi), اجرک (Saraiki)
A Sindhi block-printed cloth in indigo and crimson, worn as a shawl or wrapCotton · Block print
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreGazzi cloth
A coarse handloom cotton of the Punjab region, woven from local short staple cottonCotton
🇮🇩 IndonesiaGeringsingᬕ᭄ᬭᬶᬂᬲᬶᬂ
A sacred double ikat cloth woven only in Tenganan, a Bali Aga village in BaliCotton · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaPhool Patti ka Kaam
An appliqué and embroidery craft of Uttar Pradesh, once used for women's sarisCotton · Appliqué · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaPatola sari
A double ikat silk saree from Patan, Gujarat, with patterns dyed into both threadsSilk · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaBhagalpur sari
A tussar silk sari from Bhagalpur, known for its dyeing and its handloomsSilk
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreTant sari
A light, see-through cotton saree from Bengal with a heavy borderCotton · Jamdani · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaPat silkপাট ৰেচম
Assam's own mulberry silk, naturally white and glossy, spun by worms fed on mulberry leavesSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaBomkai sari
A handloom Odisha saree with fish and temple threadwork on border and palluCotton · Brocade
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreNakshi kanthaনকশি কাঁথা
An embroidered quilt from Bengal, stitched from old sarees with a simple running stitch.Cotton · Kantha · Embroidery
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreMadras
A light handwoven cotton cloth of bright checks, named after the city of ChennaiCotton · Checks and stripes · Embroidery
🇳🇵 NepalChaubandi Cholo
A wrapped cotton blouse with geometric prints from Nepal paired with a sari-style skirtCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaShantiniketan Batik
A hand-painted batik from Santiniketan, West Bengal, brushed with natural dyesBatik · Hand painting
🇮🇳 IndiaSrikalahasti kalamkari
A Kalamkari style of dyed hand-painting on cloth, made in Srikalahasti, Andhra PradeshKalamkari · Hand painting
🇮🇩 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
🇮🇳 IndiaMundum neriyathumമുണ്ട് നേരിയത്
Kerala's two-piece cotton wrap: a lower mundu and an upper neriyathuCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaChikankariچِکن کاری (Urdu) / चिकनकारी (Hindi)
A hand embroidery from Lucknow, usually white thread on light fabric.Cotton · Embroidery · Block print
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreAgrun
A shuttle-woven Hajong shawl with big, symmetrical brocaded patternsSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇹🇭 ThailandThai silkผ้าไหมไทย
Hand-woven Thai silk with a two-tone sheen, from glossy mulberry and matte eri cocoonsSilk · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaDharmavaram silk sari
A handwoven Andhra silk sari in mulberry silk and zari, made only on pit loomsSilk · Zari work · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 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
🇮🇳 IndiaKhandua
An Odia ikat sari, usually red or orange, worn at weddings and offered to JagannathSilk · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaKoorai silk sariகூரை பட்டு புடவை
A nine-yard silk and cotton bridal sari from Koranad, checked, for Tamil Hindu weddingsSilk · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaLeheriya
A Rajasthani tie-dye of diagonal stripes, rolled and bound before the dye goes inCotton · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaKasaragod saree
A handwoven cotton sari from Kasaragod, Kerala, made for everyday wearCotton · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaPochampally sari
A Telangana handloom saree whose geometric motifs come from dyed-then-woven ikat yarnsSilk · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaKorial sariকোরিয়াল শাড়ি
A handwoven Bengal silk sari with a red border and fine designs on the anchalSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMashru
A heavy hand-woven satin with a silk face over cotton, woven in Punjab and SindhSilk
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMundu
A cotton garment wrapped around the waist in Kerala and the MaldivesCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaGota patti
An appliqué embroidery from Rajasthan that stitches shiny ribbon into patterns on clothAppliqué · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaMaheshwari saree
A handloom saree woven in Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh, in cotton, silk and zariCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaUttariya
Ancient Indian upper garment of loose cloth draped over shoulders and armsCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaDorea
A striped or checked cloth of the Indian subcontinent, first cotton then silkCotton · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 India and 3 moreTussar silkkosa (Sanskrit)
A wild silk with a dull gold sheen, gathered in forests and woven into sareesSilk · Kantha
🇮🇳 IndiaKhara Dupattaکھڑا دوپٹہ
A six-yard embroidered net veil draped over a wedding ensemble in HyderabadNet · Embroidery · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaPhanekꯐꯅꯦꯛ
A wrapped skirt worn by Meitei women in Manipur, woven with patterned stripesMuga · Checks and stripes · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaSambalpuri sari
A handwoven Odisha sari patterned by tie-dyeing yarn before weavingSilk · Ikat · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaKasavu
A Kerala handloom cloth with fine gold or silver border lines on white cottonCotton · Zari work
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 5 moreBatikꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀
A wax-resist dyeing technique from Java, used for patterned cloth.Silk · Batik · Hand painting
🇹🇭 ThailandPanungผ้านุ่ง
A long cotton cloth wrapped at the waist and worn below the knee in ThailandCotton · Checks and stripes
🇪🇬 Egypt and 5 moreResist dyeing
A family of dyeing methods that keep colour out to form a patternTie-dye · Ikat
🇱🇦 Laos and 1 moreSinhສິ້ນ
A handmade tube skirt in silk or cotton, worn in Laos and northeast ThailandSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaDokhonaदख'ना
A wrap-around cloth worn by Boro women of Assam, usually yellow, with woven Agor designsCotton · Brocade
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Chanderi sari: India Untravelled, CC BY 2.0, source
- Kachchh shawl: Ekabhishek, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ajrak: Kashif11, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Geringsing: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Patola sari: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Tant sari: Billjones94, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pat silk: Hiranmoy Boruah, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bomkai sari: Nayansatya, CC BY 3.0, source
- Madras: Shweta Venkateswaran, CC0, source
- Nakshi kantha: A junaid alam khan ( talk ), Public domain, source
- Shantiniketan Batik: Sumita Arup, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Chaubandi Cholo: This file is a work by Ester Inbar ( user:ST or he:user:ST ). More of, Attribution, source
- Srikalahasti kalamkari: Anilbhardwajnoida, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sarong: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mundum neriyathum: L. Anantha Krishna Iyer (Diwan Bahadur), Public domain, source
- Chikankari: Joey Berzowska, CC BY 2.0, source
- Thai silk: JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dharmavaram silk sari: Ch Maheswara Raju, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mekhela sador: Deepraj, CC BY 2.5, source
- Koorai silk sari: En.saravanan, CC BY 4.0, source
- Leheriya: Daderot, CC0, source
- Pochampally sari: Hermann Linde, Public domain, source
- Mashru: Edwin Lord Weeks, Public domain, source
- Gota patti: User:आशीष भटनागर, Public domain, source
- Mundu: Raja Ravi Varma, Public domain, source
- Uttariya: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Tussar silk: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Khara Dupatta: Kinshuk Sunil, CC BY 2.0, source
- Sambalpuri sari: Rahul191313, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Phanek: অজয় দাস, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Batik: Fpangestuphotographer, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Panung: เอบ บุนนาก, Public domain, source
- Resist dyeing: Ardyansa Nugraha, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sinh: YashiWong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dokhona: Bodoland Territorial Council, CC0, source
- Sari: Suyash.dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source