Kanchipuram, Kanchipuram district

Kanchipuram

Body, border and pallu are woven apart, then locked together thread by thread.

Cluster: Kanchipuram
District: Kanchipuram
State: Tamil Nadu
Status: GI 2004

How it is made

Three shuttles, three separate cloths. The border and the mundhi are woven on their own and interlocked with the body rather than stitched, and the join is stronger than the cloth around it — a Kanchipuram can tear in the body and keep its border.

Kanchipuram silk in peacock blue, a gold mango buti woven into the cloth. — The swatch, shot flat at the same distance as the other six.

2 pieces in this weave

Peacock blue Kanchipuram silk with a large gold mango buti woven into the cloth.

Kanchipuram · Tamil NaduKanchipuram sari, manga buti

Peacock blue mulberry silk, gold manga buti through the body, contrast pallu.

6.3 m with blouse piece₹16,800

Ask about this — Kanchipuram sari, manga buti

Kanchipuram silk saris on a rail, each with a wide woven gold border.

Kanchipuram · Tamil NaduKanchipuram sari, wide zari border

Mulberry silk in aubergine, nine-inch woven border, gold pallu.

6.3 m with blouse piece₹14,200

Ask about this — Kanchipuram sari, wide zari border

The other six

IlkalBagalkot
ChanderiAshoknagar
MaheshwariKhargone
PochampallyYadadri Bhuvanagiri
Kota doriaKota
BagruJaipur
BaghDhar
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