Kanjivaram Silk Sarees

The traditional Kanjivaram Silk saree also known as Kanchipuram Silk saree, is a sort of saree, fabricated in the Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu, Southern part of India. These sarees are worn as wedding and extraordinary event by the most of the ladies in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Besides these states the sarees are also popular in other parts of India too such as, northern, eastern and central parts of India and occasionally worn by the ladies of the mentioned  areas. The sarees are known for their energetic hues and eye catching idea, which are basically adopted from the sacred books, like Ramayana, Mahabharata  etc and idols from the shrines of this little town. Since the pallu and the body of the saree vary in shading and structure, you can expect an assortment of differentiating shades as well.The sarees are famously allude a royal look because of their radiance, solidness, and glint from the stunning zari work. The nature of the sarees depends on their materials used for making. The heavier the saree, the better the quality. This saree is best depicted as a brilliant ‘Silk Saree’ with zari work. Zari is metallic string normally produced using gold or silver and interlaced with the silk yarn to make different themes and shades.

Design of the saree

Customarily, themes for the traditional Kanjivaram silk Saree are intensely drawn from the style and arts of the sanctuaries, castles and compositions of Pallava Dynasty. The edge of the sarees contains themes of pyramidal sanctuary idea from the images or the idols of the shrines, royal residences and general works of art, and the body incorporates, checks, stripes and botanical buttas. Throughout the years, the customary and very much wanted stripes or brilliant dab structures have offered approach to increasingly representative themes, for example, organic products, creatures, feathered creatures, the sun and the moon, and even stories from folklore.

Weaving Method

The traditional Kanjivaram Silk saree includes a technic of handloom. It is woven from unadulterated mulberry silk yarn that is obtained from the mulberry silkworm, undergoing a lengthy process of spinning method. The sarees are woven in three parts, the pallu, boarder and the body part. To weave a traditional  saree, three transports are utilized. While the weaver deals with the correct side, his associate takes a shot at the left side transport. The border, the pallu, shading and configuration are typical and not quite the same as the body. On the off chance that the pallu and edge of the sarees is woven in an alternate shade, these are  first independently woven and after that is carefully joined to the body part to make a complete saree. The part where the body meets the pallu and boader is regularly indicated by a criss cross line. In the authentic Kanjivaram Silk Sarees, body, pallu and border are woven independently and afterward interlocked togetherly. The joint is woven so unequivocally that regardless of whether the sarees tears, the border won’t disconnect. And this is the unique part of the saree that  separates the traditional kanjivaram silk saree from the others.

The traditional saree undergoes the first brilliant and silver zari is likewise supplanted by a financially savvy metal or copper zari that figures out how to grip the sheen of the surface while diminishing the expense. In any case of possibility you need to assure that the zari used in the saree is real and genuine.

Cost of the the Saree

Making of a unique traditional kanjivaram saree with original silk and  zari of gold and silver may cost from  Rs. 15 k to 2 lacs even more high, depends on the design and material used in it. The heavier the saree, the better the quality. Id

Identify a Kanjivaram Silk Saree

The unique part of a traditional Kanjivaram silk saree is that, the edge, pallu and body shading method that makes the saree different from others and the duplicate ones.

There are less expensive sorts of the mentioned sarees in the market, made using low grade and duplicate zari of copper. These sarees look like original but not the similar in quality. To recognize a duplicate saree you need to be careful and learn more about the materials like fibre, zari and shading of the saree.

To differentiate between an original and phony Kanjivaram silk saree is to pick a couple of free strings from the saree, burn them If the saree is original, it will produce cinders and smell like cowskin or hair . On the other hand burning of atrtificial zari produces no cinders and smell as well.

Another simpler and increasingly possible test is search for the remaining details of zari in the saree. Real zari is made of red silk string, that is then turned with a silver string and plunged in gold. On the other hand if you notice that the colour of zari string is white or some other shading, be sure that there is no authenticity of quality.

Choose for the lebel of Silk Mark that is given to real Kanjivaram silk sarees.