How is silk used to design the most elegant sarees?

Silk is considered a luxury good in the Indian sub-continent, and about 97% of the silk is produced in five states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. In the recent discoveries in Harappa and Chanhu-Daro, it was found that Sericulture was widely practised during the time of Indus valley civilisation between 2450 BC and 2000 BC.

The traditional name of silk in South India is Pattu. Some of the most popular Pattu silk sarees manufactured in India include Banarasi sarees, Kanchipuram sarees, Thanchoi sarees, Patola sarees and Paithani sarees.

Kanchipuram sarees get their name from the city of Kanchi located close to Chennai in Tamil Nadu. The Kanchipuram silk sarees have always stood out from the other styles due to their intricate weaving patterns and the quality of silk. Similarly, a Banarasi silk saree is made in Varanasi, which is also called by the name of Banaras. They are among the most popular and beautiful sarees of India. These sarees come with Gold and silver zari, elegant silk and opulent embroidery.

 A unique weaving style of sarees is “Ikkat”. It is a resist dyeing process, where bundles of yarn are tightly wrapped together and then dyed to create the desired pattern. To replicate a model, the weaver would have to dye the thread in the same place as before and line it up on a loom in the same place, and then they’d have to weave it the same way.

There are three different ikkat sarees wholesale styles to create patterns, which are mentioned below-

•Warp Ikkat- In Warp ikkat, the weft yarns are all dyed a solid colour and only the warp yarns are ikat dyed. The patterns are visible when the threads are wound on the loom.

•Weft Ikkat- In Weft ikkat, the weft threads are ikkat dyed. It is a more complicated process than Warp ikkat as patterns are formed as the weaving progress.

•Double Ikkat-  The most complicated of the three, double ikat, is where both the warp and weft threads are resist-dyed before weaving

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