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Bandhani is a special form of tie dyeing that involves the use of thread for knotting.

Indian artisans use carved wooden blocks and brushes to apply the wax. Using this labor intensive technique, the artisans can create a range of designs including multi-colored and richly layered scenes.

A chain stitch embroidery technique using colored wool yarns. Traditionally done on a rustic canvas cloth (dosooti) for home furnishing items, and on lightweight wool for shawls and scarves.

Fabric woven from silk yarns made of thread from the cocoon of 2 silk worms that have nestled together. The yarns have an irregular denier which when woven produce a fabric that is recognized for its irregularity and slubs.

A complicated dyeing technique applied to the yarns prior to weaving which will create designs on the finished fabric.

Kalamkari is the earliest technique of block printing on cloth using vegetable dyes. The traditional process is complex and intricate, and the blocks are made by specialist artisans.

A light weight cotton fabric woven in plaids and check patterns, it became very popular in the West for shirts and dresses.

A sheer, lightweight silk fabric made from semi bleached undegummed yarn.

Silk filament covered in Sericin, its protective layer of gum from the cocoon.

The woven, outside edge of a fabric wide and made with a different color thread, the selvedge has a tighter construction than the body of the fabric which prevents it from unraveling.

Produced from uncultivated silkworms that live in the wild, and generally referred to as raw silk or wild silk.

Vertical threads of a fabric. Applies to threads which run the length of the fabric.

Relates to horizontal threads. On a loom, the shuttle travels back and forth across the width of the fabric carrying the weft thread which passes over and under the warp threads.