India Saree, types, fabrics, designs and print varieties

Indian Saree fabric 

  Sarees or the gorgeous nine yards tranforms into personification of beauty in West Bengal with its variety of fabrics, colours, designs and style of drapping it. From the homely Aatpore design to nivi style to the style of Gujarati style of flaunting the pallu at the front Bengali women have embraced each and every style of saree-draping with love. Nevertheless, any woman, especially an Indian woman look gorgeous in these nine yard extravaganza.  Who can forget

 Nandita Das in a gorgeous golden Jaripar saree in her National award winning ceremony!

Sarees types, styles, fabrics, prints and shops

Indian saree is going global at this moment and we can see divas of International Fashion circuit is interested in flaunting the saree. Since the whole nine yard causes lots of trouble designer sarees are now available in ready-to-wear-stitched sarees. So what is preventing you from draping a saree? May be a little more knowledge about the fabrics, the styles and designs may help you a lot.

Indian  saree fabrics.
Top Indian saree fabrics are  silk, tussar, cotton, Georgette, etc. Among silk there is Assam silk, Murshidabad silk, Kanjibharam silk, Manipuri, Sambalpuri silk, Benarasi silk(top choice from the bride in traditional bengali weddings), Kerala silk, Motka silk, Rajshahi silk(Bangladesh), Chanderi(MP) silk, Ghisa silk, Brocade, Tanjore silk, Pochampalli ikat, Venkatgiri, Mangalgiri, Gadwal, Narayanpet etc.

      Some other  Indian  saree types are Assam Silk saree, Sambalpuri silk and cotton, Paithani,  kota doria, Chikankari, Kerala saree,  Dhakai jamdani, Bomkai, Tanjor, Dhanekhali, Bishnupuri, Tangail, Ikkat, Sambalpuri, cotton, Tant, Baluchari, Manipuri, etc

Prints : Badhej, Batik, Prints from Madhyapradesh are famous Daboo print, Bagharu print, Jaipuri print, Kalamkari,

 All these are now combined and experimented a lot with lots of  fusion ideas and Indian designers are making it a huge success with sarees. Sometimes designers have landed in controversy by making Mandira Vedi wear a saree that was designed with different national flags and accidentally our tricolor happens to cover the lower part of mandira's body. But that is an accident I think. The designer sarees in India now really become a huge business. Designers like Manish Malhotra has designed saree for Indian divas to represent India in International Film festivals which was grand success.