Sarees beginning with K
25 sarees under K.
🇮🇳 IndiaKachchh shawl
A dense wool wrap from Kutch, woven in two panels and joined with a fish stitchWool · Tie-dye · Embroidery
🇮🇳 IndiaKalamkari
A pen-drawn textile art from Andhra Pradesh, coloured with natural dyesCotton · Kalamkari · Block print
🇮🇳 IndiaKanchipuram sari
A silk sari from Kanchipuram with a separate contrast border locked onto the bodySilk · Zari work · Temple border
🇮🇳 IndiaKandangi
A checked cotton saree from Chettinad, Tamil Nadu, with a wide contrasting borderCotton · Checks and stripes
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 4 moreKanga
A printed cotton wrap worn in East Africa, often carrying a Swahili proverbCotton · Block print · Hand painting
🇮🇳 IndiaKani shawl
A pashmina shawl from Kanihama in Kashmir, patterned knot by knot with small wooden spoolsWool
🇮🇳 IndiaKasaragod saree
A handwoven cotton sari from Kasaragod, Kerala, made for everyday wearCotton · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaKasavu
A Kerala handloom cloth with fine gold or silver border lines on white cottonCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaKasta sariनऊवारी साड़ी
A nine-yard Maharashtra sari tucked at the back and worn like a dhotiCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaKasuti
Hand-counted embroidery from Karnataka, worked without knots on sarees and blousesEmbroidery
🇮🇶 IraqKaunakes
An ancient Sumerian woollen wrap with tufts that mimic sheepskinWool
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 4 moreKebayaꦏꦼꦧꦪ
A front-opening blouse worn across Southeast Asia with a sarong or kainCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 2 moreKembenꦏꦼꦩ꧀ꦧꦼꦤ꧀
A shoulder-baring chest wrap from Java and Bali, held with a cordIkat
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreKhadi
Hand-spun woven cloth from cotton and other fibres, promoted in India's independence movementCotton
🇮🇳 IndiaKhandua
An Odia ikat sari, usually red or orange, worn at weddings and offered to JagannathSilk · Ikat
🇮🇳 IndiaKhara Dupattaکھڑا دوپٹہ
A six-yard embroidered net veil draped over a wedding ensemble in HyderabadNet · Embroidery · Zari work
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreKhes
A thick hand-woven cotton blanket cloth from Punjab, woven in pairs and joinedCotton · Checks and stripes · Zari work
🇹🇭 ThailandKhitผ้าขิด
A handwoven cloth from Isan, Thailand, with geometric patterns that seem to float.Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaKimkhwab
A silk brocade woven with gold and silver yarns, once called cloth of goldSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇲🇼 Malawi and 5 moreKitenge
A thicker wrapped African cloth, often printed in bright wax patternsBatik
🇮🇳 IndiaKoorai silk sariகூரை பட்டு புடவை
A nine-yard silk and cotton bridal sari from Koranad, checked, for Tamil Hindu weddingsSilk · Checks and stripes
🇮🇳 IndiaKorial sariকোরিয়াল শাড়ি
A handwoven Bengal silk sari with a red border and fine designs on the anchalSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaKotpad Handloom fabric
Plant-dyed sarees woven by Mirgan weavers in an Odisha villageCotton · Jamdani
🇮🇳 IndiaKovai Cora cotton
A handwoven cotton-silk saree from the Coimbatore region of Tamil NaduCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaKutch embroidery
Mirror-set hand embroidery from Kutch district, Gujarat, worked mainly by womenCotton · Embroidery · Mirror work
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Kachchh shawl: Ekabhishek, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kitenge: Fanny Schertzer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Srikalahasti kalamkari: Anilbhardwajnoida, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kemben: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Koorai silk sari: En.saravanan, CC BY 4.0, source
- Kanga: Petr Berka ( Petrberka ), Public domain, source
- Khara Dupatta: Kinshuk Sunil, CC BY 2.0, source
- Kanchipuram sari: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0, source
- Khadi: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Kandangi: RidahZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kutch embroidery: Jainamishra, CC BY 3.0, source
- Kebaya: Simon_sees, CC BY 2.0, source
- Kaunakes: Marie-Lan Nguyen, CC BY 4.0, source
- Kasta sari: Dakutaa at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kasuti: Kannadiga, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Khit: Pawyilee, Public domain, source
- Kani shawl: Shahidkashmir, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Khes: RAJIVVASUDEV, CC BY-SA 4.0, source