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Paithani Bridal Sari Paithani Bridal Sari An aeroplane with a Paithani design created by Meera Mehta an Indian textile designer, on its vertical stabilizer-rudder.. Paithani is a variety of sari, named after the Paithan town in Aurangabad from state of Maharashtra in India where the sari was first made by hand.
A sari (sometimes also saree [1] or sadi) [note 1] is a drape (cloth) [2] and a women's garment in the Indian subcontinent. [3] It consists of an un-stitched stretch of woven fabric arranged over the body as a dress, with one end attached to the waist, while the other end rests over one shoulder as a stole, [4] [5] sometimes baring a part of the midriff.
Masaba Gupta was born in 1988 [2] and is the daughter of Indian actress Neena Gupta and West Indies' former cricketer Viv Richards and grew up in Mumbai. [3] Her parents never married and she was raised by her mother, who moved the family from New Delhi to Mumbai. Gupta found a father figure in her late maternal grandfather, and when she turned ...
An Indian TV anchor who was reportedly wearing her grandmother’s heirloom green and red saree was told by her Israeli guest during a broadcast to “save it for another occasion”.
The cotton industry in ancient India was well developed, and several of the methods survive until today. Herodotus, an ancient Greek historian described Indian cotton as "a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep". [3] Indian cotton clothing was well adapted to the dry, hot summers of the subcontinent.
It is as simple as wearing your favourite pair of denims. Besides, you don't have to worry that the drape might come off." [16] Shobhaa De told in her blog that she suggested to Mukesh Ambani that the cheerleaders of Mumbai Indians wear the traditional nine yard kasta sari and perform dance routines for the local lavani. [17]
A Sambalpuri sari is a traditional handwoven bandha sari (locally called "sambalpuri bandha" sadhi or saree) wherein the warp and the weft are tie-dyed before weaving. It is a handloom sari produced in the Sambalpur , Bargarh , Balangir , Boudh and Sonepur districts of Odisha , India.
Kanchipuram silk sarees are large and heavy owing to the zari work on the saree. Kanchipuram attracts large number of people, both from India and abroad, who come specifically to buy the silk sarees. Most of the sarees are still hand woven by workers in the weaving unit. More than 5000 families still indulge in silk weaving.