Sarees known in different states, culture and different designs.

1. Banaras Brocade

This saree from Banaras is virtually mandatory in the bride’s wear. These sarees vary tremendously as weavers create different products to suit different regional markets and changing fashions. The Brocade came into existence during the Moghul era and most of the Brocade designs are influenced by them like complex interweaving floral and foliate motifs, kalga and bel. The original design of Banarasi brocades is a narrow overlying like pattern, called Jhhalar, found in inner as well as the outer border. This border resembles a string of leaves.

2. Kota Doria/ Kota Jali
Rajasthan’s famous place Kota, that's actually popular for Kota Doria Sarees. These light weighted and transparent sarees manufactured in small villages in around Kota city. That’s why Kota sarees are lightest cotton sarees in India, but these sarees are also made in silk. As still Cotton weaves are simply outstanding. These sarees are most suitable for summers. These sarees are very light also drape gracefully.

3. Kanjivaram Sarees
Kanjivaram or Kanjeewaram is characterized by gold dipped sliver thread that is woven into brilliant silk. The kanjee silk is much thicker than any other silks, therefore they are expensive. Some animal prints are very famous and common motifs in these heavier silk sarees, but they have better quality. While Korean and Chinese silk are suitable for light-weight sarees (machine woven), only mulberry silk produced in Karnataka and few parts of Tamil Nadu, is right for the classic Kanjeewaram.

4.Konrad Sarees
The temple saree or the Konrad saree is also a specialty item of Tamil Nadu state. These sarees were originally woven for temple deities. These sarees describe as wide, bordered sarees and also as it is in wedding related motifs such as elephants and peacocks, symbolizing water, fertility and fecundity.

5.Baluchari Sarees
Mainly three shaded red, purple as well occasionally in deep blue, five yards in length and 42” wide that covered with small boats and awesome floral design across the edges. The Pallu of these sarees having decorated with narrative motifs. These 200 years old fashionable saree looks similar as Banarasi Sarees. There is only one difference between on these two sarees, Baluchari sarees use only silk threads and banarasi sarees do use zari threads. These sarees are most wearers in devotional stories.

6. Tant Sarees
These traditional cotton sarees worn by Bengali ladies. These sarees come in various colors with simple and beautiful designs, so these are best suited for hot and humid weather. They have elaborate palace and broad gold threadwork borders. And it is especially for cotton lover women.

7.Kantha Sarees
Kantha, names from embroidery works in fabrics. Sarees have full of embroidered with Kantha embroidery works, that knows as Kantha sarees. The main Kantha embroidery is decorative motifs with running stitch. The cloth is entirely covered with running stitches and has beautiful folk, floral, animal and bird motifs. This art of Kantha is practiced by rural women in West Bengal in spare time and each Kantha sari is a result of hard work and labor.

8.Bhadhani Sarees
The very worldwide famous Bandhani sarees are also known as Bandhej. As it is a type of tie-dye practiced mainly in Rajasthan and Gujarat. After the processing is over, results into a variety of symbols, including, dots, squares, waves and stripes. Bandani sarees are made in bright and contrasting color combinations.

9.Paithani Sarees
These hand woven fine silk sarees are comes from the Paithan region in Maharashtra. These sarees uses a these sarees use an enormous amount of labor, skill and sheer expanse of material in their creation. Distinctive motifs such as parrots, trees and plants are woven into the saree. The shades vary from vivid magenta, peacock greens and purples. In the pallav, the base is in gold and the pattern is done in silk, giving the whole saree an embossed look. As they are more costly sarees in Maharashtra.

10.Chanderi and Maheshwari Sarees
The Chanderi saree from Madhya Pradesh is light and meant for Indian summers. It is made in silk or fine cotton with patterns taken from the Chanderi temples. The Maheshwari sarees are also both in cotton and silk, usually green or purple with a zari border. The traditional block-printed tussar can also be found in contemporary designs nowadays.

11.Gadwal Sarees
Gadwal saree is made in cotton in a style influenced by the Benarasi weaves. While the ground of the saree is cotton, there is a loosely attached silk border. Copper or gold-dipped zari is generally used in these sarees. The motifs of the murrugan (peacock) and the Rudraksh are popular. Traditional colors for these sarees are earth shades of browns, grays and off-whites.

 

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