The Handloom Silk Sarees: Exclusive Craft With Intricate Designs, Motifs and Colors

Handwoven silk sarees are essential keepsake of Indian cultural wardrobe

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Handloom Silk Sarees are made from Silk threads by processing silk, dyeing, warping and sizing. Attaching the warp, weft and winding and weaving done by local weavers and silk specialists and design creators in waving villages. This is especially true in North India in Benaras or Varanasi and South India Tamil Nadu and Karnataka states. The Handloom Silk Sarees: Exclusive Craft With Intricate Designs, Motifs and Colors, are favorite of most Indian Women worldwide.

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Silk Fiber

Silk which is a natural protein fiber is obtained from cocoons of larvae of Mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori, and other Bombyx species reared in sericulture (silk farming) for commercial production of silk. The protein fiber is mainly fibroin and sericin protein, which is produced by larvae to form cocoon.

Silk threads are also obtained from lotus flower stems. This is most ecofriendly creation of silk as there is no chemical and harmful toxins involvement during process of creation. Fabric created from this fiber…