All sarees
161 sarees so far, best known first. 42 more are on the list to be written.
🇮🇳 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
🇮🇳 IndiaKanchipuram sari
A silk sari from Kanchipuram with a separate contrast border locked onto the bodySilk · Zari work · Temple border
🇮🇳 India and 4 moreEri silk
A wild silk from northeast India, spun from cocoons the moth has leftEri
🇧🇩 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
🇮🇩 IndonesiaSumba textiles
Ikat cloths and tube skirts from a small island in eastern Indonesia, woven by womenIkat · Embroidery
🇮🇩 IndonesiaBalinese textiles
The woven cloths of Bali, from sacred double ikat to gold-dusted ceremony wearCotton · Ikat · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaTsüngkotepsü
A black and red Ao Naga warrior shawl with a white band of animal and star motifs
🇮🇳 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
🇮🇳 IndiaPedana Kalamkari
Vegetable-dyed, block-printed cloth from Pedana, near Machilipatnam in Andhra PradeshKalamkari · Block print
🇮🇳 IndiaBanarasi sari
Fine silk sari from Varanasi, patterned with zari and woven on foot-powered loomsSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaBanarasi sari
A heavy silk brocade saree woven with gold and silver zari in VaranasiSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaOdisha Ikat
A tie-dyed Odisha silk weave known for curvilinear motifs and brocade bordersSilk · Ikat · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaKovai Cora cotton
A handwoven cotton-silk saree from the Coimbatore region of Tamil NaduCotton · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaMurshidabad silkমুর্শিদাবাদী রেশম
A fine, light mulberry silk from Murshidabad district, West Bengal, woven mainly into sarisSilk · Brocade · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaUppada Jamdani sari
A light handwoven silk sari from Uppada, Andhra Pradesh, with motifs on both facesSilk · Jamdani · Zari work
🇮🇳 IndiaDukula
A fine bark-fibre cloth of ancient India, known for its swan patternLinen
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreMatka
A coarse Bengal silk spun from cocoons the moth has already leftSilk
🇵🇰 PakistanSindhi embroideryسنڌي ٿرت
Needlework and mirror embroidery crafted across the desert communities of SindhEmbroidery · Mirror work
🇮🇳 IndiaJamawar
A brocaded Kashmiri shawl, sold by the yard and once worn as a noble's gownWool · Brocade
🇮🇳 IndiaKalamkari
A pen-drawn textile art from Andhra Pradesh, coloured with natural dyesCotton · Kalamkari · Block print
🇮🇳 IndiaKutch embroidery
Mirror-set hand embroidery from Kutch district, Gujarat, worked mainly by womenCotton · Embroidery · Mirror work
🇧🇩 BangladeshDhakai
A cotton saree from Dhaka, once woven with the jamdani techniqueCotton · Jamdani
🇮🇳 IndiaGopalpur tussar silkଗୋପାଳପୁର ଟସର ବସ୍ତ୍ର
A handwoven tussar silk cloth from a village in Jajpur district, OdishaTussar · Tie-dye
🇮🇳 IndiaMangalagiri sari
A cotton sari from Mangalagiri with a zari border and a plain bodyCotton · Zari work
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Rajshahi silk: Bongan, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Srikalahasti kalamkari: Anilbhardwajnoida, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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
- Jamdani: Salim_Khandoker, CC0, source
- Kanchipuram sari: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0, source
- Eri silk: Simtastic01, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gamosa: Priyankoo at en.wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Balinese textiles: Chris Hazzard, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sumba 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
- Banarasi sari: Ekabhishek, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pedana Kalamkari: Sathishkagitha, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Odisha Ikat: Atudu, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sindhi embroidery: Nasreen wafai, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kutch embroidery: Jainamishra, CC BY 3.0, source
- Dhakai: Amit Sen, CC BY-SA 4.0, source