Indian Accessories

India offers a wide variety of affordable saris that provide the similar looks and elegance as their counterparts, the expensive ones. They are available in various materials, eye catching designs and vibrant colors. Almost all Indian textile showrooms are flooded with these affordable saris and make a good profit in the sales of these saris.
Brasso saris, in various colors like hot pink, elegant black and blood red are available in different customized designs and patterns. These most sought after saris look very beautiful and attractive and are perfect for summer wear, ideal for daily use and special occasions as well. Crisp printed saris and printed delicate synthetic ones having a mass appeal add elegance and simplicity to a woman’s looks. These printed saris are available in various exotic prints, patterns and shades. Long lasting designer silk saris, another affordable sari, are coming in various patterns or as plain. These saris look fabulous either with a plain body having enchanting patterns on the border or with beautiful and colorful prints and patterns all over the body. Such saris last long since fast colors are used for dying them.
Cotton silk saris are created by blending pure cotton and silk in the right proportion. These saris have a soft touch, at the same time are firm too. The cotton silk saris are sold out in a large variety of prints and patterns and also as plain ones. The traditional cheap-rated handloom saris are woven by hand using hand-spun yarn. The handloom khadi cotton is woven in such a way that the interlacing of threads provides maximum passage of air, causing cooling effect on the body, making it suitable for summer days. Soft and glossy handloom silk saris are also available at slightly higher rates.
Automatic Saris: Traditional sari, worn by Indian women, is a 5–5.5 meters long light material that in draped around the body. But draping the sari is a time consuming art that needs to be mastered in order to justify the elegance of that costume. Especially for a beginner who finds it difficult to drape the sari in the stylish and elegant form, automatic sari offers a perfect solution with its simple ready- to-wear feature. This ready made outfit with its pre-stitched pleats could be worn just like a skirt and the wearer has to drape the loose end over the shoulder, taking approximately 15 minutes to slip into it.
These automatic saris are a boon to those who have no knowledge how to drape it. This category includes foreign ladies or Anglo-Indians settled outside India, employed women who love to wear sari but face time constraints and any woman who has a passion for Indian fashion. The stitching of the sari is so perfect that you cannot distinguish between a normal sari and an automatic one when it is worn. The blouse should be worn separately and most automatic saris require a petticoat. But a few saris, depending on the fabric used, may not need a petticoat.

Special mention should be made on certain Indian saris for their quality, aesthetic looks and decorations.
Baluchari saris: A wonder from West Bengal Baluchari sari is loved by almost all Indian women.

These saris are famous for their alluring designs in silk threads all over the body with the ‘aanchal’ or the flowing end depicting mythological characters or romantic scenes—recapturing moments from the past in an artistic way—and for the enticing contrasting colors.
But to achieve this magic piece several months of hardwork and designing are required. Designer needs five to six months just to design costing $250-375. Two types of silk threads are brought from two different parts of India-Bangalore in the south and West Bengal in the east- for weaving, one vertically and the other horizontally. It needs extra skills and long experience to weave Baluchari saris. This wonderful art is facing extinction for want of proper infrastructure and financial aid.

Kota Saris: The famous Kota Doria saris are made in small villages around the Kota city in the Rajasthan State, India. Kota Doria is a super thin, but stable cotton or cotton silk weave consisting yarn of various thickness. These yarns are woven in such a way that they give a graph like pattern called khats, squares formed by the fibers of different thicknesses. The intermittent thick yarns give the weave sufficient weight and lateral stability, yet the material is unbelievably airy and very transparent. Usually Kota saris are suited to be worn in hot summers.

The saris made of the Kota doria are the finest in India. The fact that they are almost weightless shows how fine the saris are. The spinning, dying and weaving are very complicated works and can be done only by very skilled and experienced hands. They take several days to complete the works. The Kota sari looks exquisite in its perfection. The saris made of Kota doria fabric is very unique with the warp and the weft using a combination of threads forming a superfine chequered pattern where the cotton and silk provide the stability and the shining finish to the fabric respectively. Kota saris are available in other complicated designs in a combination of silk and cotton as well. This art form also is challenged by technically advanced power looms.

Gadwal Saris: Gadwal sari, produced in a small town Gadwal at a distance of 150 km from Hyderabad, is an example of the marvelous textile-craft of Andhra Pradesh in India. This sari clearly exhibits the superfine blending of traditional and modern designing concepts. The main characteristic feature of Godwal sari is that its body is made up of fine cotton with borders and pallu created with pure silk.

An interlocked woof art, locally known as Kupadam, is the traditional technique used to weave these saris. The border of the sari is composed of tusser or mulberry silk and the cotton body has resplendent colors, mostly decorated with silk checks. Sico sari, the latest trend, is a fabulous blend of 50% cotton and 50% silk. The expensive Gadwal pure silk sari is not as popular as the Sico.
The South Indian traditional designs, like peacock, rudraksha etc are woven into the saris. The silk is brought from Bangalore for making the sari and the zari, gold and silver threads used to give the sari an ornate look come from Surat. This magnificent sari attracts not only Indians, but buyers from all over the world.

A woman, draped in a lovely printed sari looks too elegant and graceful. Printing on textile fabrics is a process by which decorative designs or patterns are made on them using dyes, pigments or other related materials.

Even though the fabrics get a kind of decorative pattern during spinning printing offers an added look and appeal to the fabric. Saris made of different fabrics also are decorated with various designs and colors by sari printing or painting to make them more attractive and eye catching. Usually various types of Indian apparels have different styles of printing on them; some have abstract designs while others contain block printing.
Let us have a look at some of the important types of sari prints:
Golden Print Saris: These types of saris are very popular now and are available in various colors, designs and fabrics with golden prints on them. These golden prints enhance the beauty of the sari and make it more appealing and graceful.
Flower Print Saris: Flowers are beautiful, it is a universal truth. When floral prints in bright colors appear on saris there is naturally a mad rush among women to own one. These patterns of flowers make the attire look vivid. Very bright and fluorescent colors are used in the floral print saris to print a lot of big and small flowers.
Abstract Prints: No doubt, both the sari and the wearer get a stylish look by the abstract prints on saris. You find these saris in different colors, fabrics and designs and can wear on any time.
Bandhej Print Saris: Usually Bandhej designs are printed on traditional Indian saris. These saris, available in various fabrics and multicolor are extremely popular among Indian women.
Block Prints: In this traditional method of printing color blocks of different designs are used. These block designs give the sari a different and endearing look and these multicolor saris look very attractive.
Lehariya Printed Saris: This is the most sought after sari and has been in the top place among all types of printed saris for several years. Lehariya saris have all kinds of stripes vertical, horizontal or diagonal printed on them. Saris or blouse with printed stripes are considered as evergreen attire loved by working class women. Young ladies and women draped in striped printed saris is a frequent sight. These saris give an exceptionally classy and elegant look to the wearer.
Kalamkari Print Saris: Saris with kalamkari prints have an entirely unique and different look and have been a favorite of Indian women for decades. This print looks fascinating in all colors and fabrics.
Geometric Prints: Wearing a geometric print sari, available in all fashion fabrics like crepe, georgette, chiffon, laser etc is today’s craze. The saris look spectacular in different color combinations of the patterns.
Printed saris are affordable and the cost depends on the types of fabric and the prints used. Modern fashion designers use high-tech machines to print patterns fast and effectively.

As the wedding season approaches the textile shops in India compete with each other in the introduction of dazzling wedding saris. These saris are expensive coming in the traditional colors like red, orange, maroon etc with matching blouses and petticoats. These contain no synthetic materials. Here are a few latest arrivals in bridal sari collections.

This bridal wear elegant brocade sari is in beautiful and rare combination and has intricately woven borders. The full body contains designs made up of small motifs. Pallu’s unique design appears like a meenakari style woven in the background with similar borders on its two sides. Price is $ 259.00

A pure georgette bridal sari, in marvelous jacquard maroon, has golden color floral designs, bold eye catching border and a pallu having a bright floral galeecha design. The sari has a rich majestic look. Sari along with matching blouse is priced at $ 215.00.

A bride looks stunning in a very beautiful and rich looking brocade sari that has a golden color pallu having broad borders on both sides with delicate motifs all along. The delicately and intricately woven pallu is enchanting and the blue and golden color combination enhances the look of the bridal sari. The sari with fancy blouse costs $191

Fine crepe brocade sari in dark green makes a bride exquisitely beautiful. The sari has pretty designs all over the body and scalloped borders with intricate designs. Richly created pallu has huge borders with delicate designs and between the borders highly dense floral sequence are arranged. The price of this sari with matching blouse and petticoat is around $278.50.

Yet another latest release is an elegant brocade sari that has thick border on each side with intricate design all along and dots on the background having scalloped type motifs. This sari, in two rare contrasting combinations with a golden touch, has a pallu divided into three sections having bold designs in them and red tassels are attached on it. Sari with blouse is available at $250.

Again here is a superb brocade sari with a brilliant combination of copper and golden colors. The sari has on its each side well- embellished bold borders. Pallu is designed in a unique style called galeecha in which golden dots and golden motifs are arranged alternately allover. Sari together with matching blouse and petticoat costs $270.50

Simplicity is visible in this elegant wedding sari with a green, pinkish maroon and cream combination, the colors being arranged in a very rare manner. Sari has its extreme border on green base with fabulous meenakari work followed by pinkish maroon borders decorated with small motifs and the remaining part of the body is in cream color without any motifs. In the pallu also the green and pinkish maroon combination is done with exquisite motifs. Red tassels on it make it more attractive. Price of sari with blouse and petticoat is $175.
These are only a very few samples from hundreds of dazzling Indian Bridal Saris.