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TextileGI Tagged · 2011
Baluchari Saree
TownBishnupur
StateWest Bengal
Craft typeTextile
GI tag2011
About
A richly woven silk saree whose pallu depicts detailed mythological and courtly scenes, including entire narrative panels from the Mahabharata, woven directly into the fabric rather than printed or embroidered.
Did you know? A Baluchari pallu can depict an entire scene from an epic like the Mahabharata woven thread by thread into the silk, some historic pieces even wove in contemporary imagery like Englishmen smoking pipes on horseback.