Dharmavaram silk sarees

Dharmavaram is a small civic of rich handloom cluster situated in Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh. Amongst the silk weaves here the Dharmavaram silk sarees are famous. Noted for solid colour borders with contrast pallu woven with brocaded gold patterns, these sarees are used as wedding saris.

Woven with tussar silk, Dharmavaram also produces simpler patterns for every day use have the specialty of being woven in two colours which give an effect of muted double shades accentuated by the solid colour border and pallu. Though the Dharmavaram sarees are some what similar to Kanchipuram sarees of Tamilnadu, yet the muted colours, the double shades create a total different effect.