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
🇵🇰 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
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreTant sari
A light, see-through cotton saree from Bengal with a heavy borderCotton · Jamdani · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaBomkai sari
A handloom Odisha saree with fish and temple threadwork on border and palluCotton · Brocade
🇮🇳 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
🇮🇳 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
🇮🇳 IndiaMekhela sador
A two-piece Assamese dress: a wrapped skirt and a drape, woven in muga, eri or pat silkSilk · Brocade
🇮🇳 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
🇮🇩 IndonesiaTenunꦠꦼꦤꦸꦤ꧀
Handwoven Indonesian cloth created with ancient ikat and supplementary metallic threadsCotton · Ikat · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaLanga voniలంగా వోణి
A South Indian half sari: a string-tied skirt and a short diagonal upper clothSilk · Embroidery · Mirror work
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreBandhani
A tie-dye cloth of tiny knotted dots, made in Gujarat and Rajasthan for saris and turbansSilk · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 India and 1 morePathin
A striped wrap skirt worn by Hajong women in Northeast India and BangladeshSilk · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaPipili appliqué workଚାନ୍ଦୁଆ
A stitched-cloth craft from Pipili, Odisha, born to dress the chariots of JagannathCotton · Appliqué · Embroidery
🇱🇰 Sri LankaOsariyaඔසරිය
Sri Lanka's national dress: a sari with a waist frill and a full blouseCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaMadisarமடிசார்
A nine-yard Tamil Brahmin sari drape, worn over one shoulder for ceremoniesSilk
🇮🇳 IndiaKotpad Handloom fabric
Plant-dyed sarees woven by Mirgan weavers in an Odisha villageCotton · Jamdani
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreKhes
A thick hand-woven cotton blanket cloth from Punjab, woven in pairs and joinedCotton · Checks and stripes · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaHimroo
A silk and cotton brocade from Aurangabad, patterned with Persian designsSilk · Brocade
🇮🇳 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
🇮🇳 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
🇮🇳 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
🇮🇳 IndiaDokhonaदख'ना
A wrap-around cloth worn by Boro women of Assam, usually yellow, with woven Agor designsCotton · Brocade
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 1 moreJamdaniজামদানি
A fine figured muslin from Bangladesh, patterned on the loom with a supplementary weftCotton · Jamdani · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaGamosaগামুছা
A white cotton cloth with a red border from Assam, woven for Bihu, prayer and daily useCotton
🇮🇩 IndonesiaBalinese textiles
The woven cloths of Bali, from sacred double ikat to gold-dusted ceremony wearCotton · Ikat · Brocade
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreKhadi
Hand-spun woven cloth from cotton and other fibres, promoted in India's independence movementCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaChendamangalam saree
A hand-woven Kerala cotton sari with a dark tamarind-leaf line at its edgeCotton · Zari work · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaKandangi
A checked cotton saree from Chettinad, Tamil Nadu, with a wide contrasting borderCotton · Checks and stripes
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 5 moreLungiলুঙ্গি
A tube of cotton tied at the waist, worn by men across South Asia and beyondCotton · Checks and stripes · Batik
🇮🇳 IndiaKovai Cora cotton
A handwoven cotton-silk saree from the Coimbatore region of Tamil NaduCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaUppada Jamdani sari
A light handwoven silk sari from Uppada, Andhra Pradesh, with motifs on both facesSilk · Jamdani · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaKalamkari
A pen-drawn textile art from Andhra Pradesh, coloured with natural dyesCotton · Kalamkari · Block print
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Ajrak: Kashif11, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Geringsing: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Tant sari: Billjones94, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bomkai sari: Nayansatya, CC BY 3.0, source
- Madras: Shweta Venkateswaran, CC0, 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
- Mundum neriyathum: L. Anantha Krishna Iyer (Diwan Bahadur), Public domain, source
- Chikankari: Joey Berzowska, CC BY 2.0, 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
- Mundu: Raja Ravi Varma, Public domain, source
- Uttariya: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Sambalpuri sari: Rahul191313, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Batik: Fpangestuphotographer, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Panung: เอบ บุนนาก, Public domain, source
- Dokhona: Bodoland Territorial Council, CC0, source
- Jamdani: Salim_Khandoker, CC0, source
- Gamosa: Priyankoo at en.wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Balinese textiles: Chris Hazzard, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Khadi: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Chendamangalam saree: Malluchronicle, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kandangi: RidahZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lungi: Laportechicago at English Wikipedia (Paul La Porte)., CC BY 2.5, source
- Tenun: Silitonga, G., Soekardi, R., and Tambunan, S., Public domain, source
- Langa voni: Kannadiga, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bandhani: RubyGoes, CC BY 2.0, source
- Sari: Suyash.dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Osariya: Mr Anuradha Ratnaweera (අනුරාධ රත්නවීර මහතා), CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Khes: RAJIVVASUDEV, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Himroo: RubyGoes, CC BY 2.0, source