Textiles & Craft
Banarasi zari brocade
Mughal era onwardVaranasi weaversVaranasiUttar Pradesh
1550
Silk brocades woven with gold and silver thread.
- Dated
- 1550–1757
- As scholars put it
- Mughal era onward
- Originator
- Varanasi weavers
- Source text
- Varanasi
- Region
- Uttar Pradesh
- Discipline
- Textiles & Craft
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Fair to say
Influenced by Persian designs.
Path to modern innovation
A luxury textile still produced today.
Transmission
GI-registered.
References
- 1GI registry
Further reading
Corrections and additional sources: edit IND-304 on GitHub.