When the very earth of India seems to be roasting, when the seas and the Ganges River seem to boil under the solar blaze, women have to lose some clothing at one point or another. While wholesale stripping is one, the classier thing to do is to put on some handloom cotton sarees.
Cotton makes for well-ventilated outfits, as opposed to silk and its ilk. India’s deep-seated handloom sari-weaving tradition fortunately had cotton in mind.
Case in point is Bengal, the home of the Tant, Jamdanies and Baluchari saris. The Jamdanies is hailed in particular as a highly transparent handloom cotton saree, typified by supplementary threadwork ornament, which is "Jammed" into the weft.
On the other hand, the handloom cotton saree called Baluchari is a classic. Usually woven into these saris are scenes from religious epics of India.
The South’s handloom cotton sarees are also as airy as can be. In the Andhra Pradesh region, one may find some of the softest and most comfortable saris ever, the Guntur Sarees.
Coimbatore saris are also ventilating, in that it features elaborate cotton brocade. Kerala’s traditional two-piece sari, Balarampuram Mundu-Veshti is woven from a sublimely fine muslin-type cloth |
