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Chenab Valley & Chamba · Western Himalaya & Trans-Himalaya
The defining garment of the region is a working uniform, not a costume. The Gaddi chola and dora were designed for a man who spends six months a year outdoors above 3,000 metres with a flock, and every part of them does a job — the wool is undyed because it comes off the animals he is walking with, and the rope at the waist is a rope. Below the grazing altitude the wardrobe becomes ordinary north Indian, and on the Kishtwar side the Kashmiri pheran appears.
क्या पहना जाता है
A knee-length coat of undyed white wool, gathered at the waist by the dora — a black wool cord that can run to twenty or thirty metres and is wound round and round the body. Winding it tight compresses the coat into an insulating layer and creates a deep pouch above the waist, which is used to carry food, a newborn lamb or a sick kid. Unwound, the dora is a working rope on a pass.
किस मौके पर: Everyday and migration
A joined bodice and full gathered skirt worn with a dora at the waist and a head cloth, in wool for winter and in printed cotton in summer. The skirt's fullness is a function of the walking the garment is for.
किस मौके पर: Everyday and festive
The flat round wool cap with a coloured velvet band. The band's colour and pattern is read locally as an indicator of where a man is from, and the Chamba style is distinguishable from the Kullu and Kinnauri ones.
किस मौके पर: Everyday and ceremonial
Pattu is the woven wool shoulder wrap and gudma the heavy woollen blanket, both made from local sheep wool on narrow domestic looms and both still produced for use rather than sale.
किस मौके पर: Winter
The long loose woollen gown of the Kashmir Valley, worn over a kangri firepot in the coldest months, which reaches down the Chenab gorge as far as Kishtwar and thins out below Doda.
किस मौके पर: Winter
बुनाई और कपड़े
Embroidered muslin squares worked in untwisted silk floss in the double satin stitch called dohara tanka, which produces an identical image on both faces with no reverse side. Designs were drawn on the cloth by miniature painters and stitched by women of the court and town, so a Pahari painting idiom exists in silk as well as in pigment. Registered as a geographical indication in January 2007.
Undyed and naturally dark sheep wool spun on the takli while walking and woven on narrow pit and frame looms into blanket cloth, shoulder wraps and the coat cloth of the chola. Almost entirely a domestic production system. The wider Himachali gudma blanket was granted a geographical indication in 2026, but as a state-level registration rather than a Chamba-specific one.
Printed cotton used for summer luanchari and head cloths, brought in from the Punjab printing towns and cut and worn to a local pattern rather than made here.
गहने
Chenab Valley & Chamba का पारंपरिक पहनावा — कपड़े, हथकरघा बुनाई, जीआई टैग वाले वस्त्र और गहने। (8)