Independent India guide

The silk saree industry of India

From the cocoon market to the showroom — every weave, every cluster, every city, named.

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From cocoon to pallu

A silk saree starts in a cocoon market at Ramanagara or a muga grove in Assam, passes through a filature, a dye house and a zari maker, and is woven on a pit loom in Kanchipuram, Varanasi, Yeola, Patan, Sualkuchi, Bishnupur, Chanderi, Pochampally or Bargarh before it reaches a showroom in T. Nagar, Gariahat or South Extension — or a store in Wembley, Edison or Little India.

SilkSarees.com follows that chain — the weaves and their towns, the co-operatives and institutions, the showroom streets and wholesale lanes of twenty cities with their named houses, raw silk, zari, looms, GI tags, brands, exports, fairs and standards — with a named house or a named lane on every page and a live Google AI answer one tap away.

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Saree types Weaving clusters Cities Brands

How the silk saree flows — start anywhere

1. Raw silk

Mulberry, tussar, muga and eri — cocoon markets, filatures, exchanges and yarn lanes.

2. Zari and dyeing

Real and imitation zari, the dye houses and finishing floors.

3. Looms

Pit looms, jacquards and imported electronic jacquards.

4. The weaves

Thirty-three silk sarees and where each is woven.

5. The clusters

Co-operatives, federations and institutions of twenty-three weaving towns.

6. GI tags

Which names are protected and who holds them.

7. The cities

Showroom streets and wholesale lanes with the named houses, in twenty cities.

8. Brands and online

The showroom chains and web stores.

9. Exports

Exporters and the saree stores of the diaspora.

10. Fairs, bodies, standards

Silk Mark, Handloom Mark, the Central Silk Board and the state federations.

The cities

Chennai Kanchipuram Bengaluru Hyderabad Mumbai Kolkata Delhi Varanasi Coimbatore Madurai Thiruvananthapuram Kochi Pune Ahmedabad Jaipur Lucknow Surat Bhagalpur

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