Banarasi Sarees

If ever there is a sari that girls can never go wrong with, it is the Banarasi Saree. Generation after generation, it has been the sari everyone, from blushing brides to stunning belles, fell back on.

Originating from the world’s oldest city, Banaras, foreshadows the Banarasi Saree – timeless and beautiful. As it were, waxing beautiful should be a foregone conclusion with the Banarasi Saree. Far from being generic, the Banarasi Saree has not the least grown stale with age.

By all accounts the spectacle of a sari with brocade rife with gold and silver threads is something to behold over and over.For what it’s worth, it makes for a bedizenment fit for many a bride's trousseau. Tradition has it that a woman be wed garbed in no less than a Banarasi Saree.

After India’s blushing brides, the rest of the globe followed suit. Exported worldwide, the brocade today is of global position in the wardrobe scene. 

In the millennia-old build-up to this glorious era of global discovery, Banarasi Sarees have branched out into varieties for good measure.

Among other options, the Banarasi Saree may come in katan or pure silk, kora or organza, georgette, valkallam, jamava or satin. Taking particular precedence is the Banarasi Tanchoi sari, aside from timeless creations like Amru brocades and tissue sarees.

In any case, most gold or silver threads are concentrated in this sari’s pullavs and borders. Exquisite zari work is often a given too.

More often than not, the Banarasi Saree is rife with Mughal motifs, underscoring the fact that the Banarasi Saree became in vogue during the Mughal hegemony.

But then again, Banarasi Sarees are of far earlier antiquity, even chronicled in the writings of Kautilya and Patanjali. In their accounts, they mentioned about the  ``Kashika'' or Banarasi brocades as precious goods.

Its historical prevalence notwithstanding, Banarasi Sarees are for the most part ubiquities in the North, any more than the Kanchipuram sari holds court in the South.