Narayanpet

• The Narayanpet handloom sarees are designer silk sarees with fine lustre and the double colour shimmering effect.
• The body colour contrasts with that of the pallu and the characteristic wide zari border, while stripes elevate the look and appeal of the saree.
• It generally has a good fineness count of 80:80. Fineness count is a number expressing mass per unit length. Higher the count, finer the material!
• Employing vegetable dyes to the extent possible, the Narayanpet Saree has fast colours.
• Narayanpet handloom sarees are traditionally woven in the interlocked-weft technique which improves the strength of the weave.
• The influence of the temple is strong hence the temple style border is a characteristic feature on almost all the sarees woven.

Narayanpet sarees are traditionally woven in the interlocked weft technique. This ensures additional strength to the fabric.

Weft interlocking is a secure technique to really join the yarns together. Weft interlocking joins 2 weft yarns by linking them together in a row. Unlike the warp interlocking technique, the weft yarns never wrap around the warp when they intersect with each other.

For projects where you need a seamless appearance between the yarns, this is a good method to use.

The yarn is first dipped in boiling water. De-gumming or separation of gum from the natural yarn takes place. Then it is bleached, so that the yarn loses is natural colour and would readily acquire the vegetable dye colour. The stirring in the vat while the yarn is in coloured (vegetable dye mixed) boiling water, spreads the colour uniformly on the yarn. Washed again and dried in shade for fastness of colour to be retained, the yarn is spun into threads. Threads are laid out on the warp (length wise lay) and rolled onto small sticks for the weft (breadth wise weaving).

The Narayanpet saree weavers can make 25-30 sarees from one beam of warp. It used to take them more than a month to complete weaving of one beam. But with time, and improved methods this got reduced to less than a month.

Yes it is. Geographical Indication (GI) Status has been awarded to the Narayanpet Saree in April 2013.

The GI status recognizes the valuable contribution made by these weavers in keeping alive a cultural heritage of India and is a big relief to the beleaguered Narayanpet saree weavers wary of the duplication of their effort or use of their name for spurious and inferior sarees.

• Unnati Silks has a fine range of Narayanapet Handloom sarees in silk, sico and cotton for both online shopping and at stores, in wholesale and retail, with variation in design, pattern and internal features.
• Fancy block floral prints in cotton, Pure Handloom silks with embroidery, zari laden borders and other decorative finery adorned sarees are part of a wide fare of the Narayanpet handloom pattu sarees, designer silk and silk cotton sarees that can be purchased wholesale or retail, online or offline at stores in Hyderabad at Unnati Silks.
• Visiting the website of Unnati Silks you get to see Narayanpet handloom sarees’ images with their prices and other interesting details.