Kalamkari Saree

Kalamkari Saree,The nineteenth-century sungudis (no longer made) has simple geometric patterns in different colours (usually red and black). At the opposite end of the social scale are Kalamkari resist-dyed until the end of the nineteenth century. Often known as Kodalikarupur or Karupur saris, after the village of manufacture, they consisted of a fine cotton muslin in which discontinuous supplementary zari patterns were woven in the jamdani technique. The muslins were then resist-painted by hand and dyed in various natural colours, giving a rich but somber variety of red tones to the fabric. In many ways the designs are reminiscent of the hand-drawn nineteenth-century Gujarati saudagiri prints made for the Thai marker. In the early and mid-nineteenth century, "fine cotton chintzes" (Kalamkari saris) were also made in Madurai and Kalahat (north Arcot) as well as Machilipatnam


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