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Garhwal · Western Himalaya & Trans-Himalaya
Wool decides everything. Below about 1,500 m cotton is normal and wool is a winter addition; above it, wool is the year's clothing and the household that keeps sheep spins, weaves and wears its own. The distinctive Garhwali objects are therefore not embroidered garments but woven ones — the pankhi wrap, the thulma blanket and the Bhotiya floor rug — plus a small, heavy vocabulary of gold ornament that a family accumulates over generations and puts on a bride all at once.
क्या पहना जाता है
A gathered ankle-length skirt with a short fitted upper garment, worn with a head cloth. The everyday version is cotton or coarse wool; the ceremonial version is heavier and darker, and is now largely confined to older women and to ritual occasions.
किस मौके पर: Everyday and ceremonial
A dyed veil-cloth thrown over the head and shoulders, yellow-grounded and marked with a red device at the centre. The Kumaoni rangwali pichhora is its better-known cousin; the Garhwali version is worn for the same set of occasions and is drawn on rather than pre-printed in many households.
किस मौके पर: Weddings, deity festivals and rites of passage
A woven woollen wrap thrown over the shoulder — light enough to work in, warm enough to sleep under, and the single most useful object a hill household owns after the copper pot.
किस मौके पर: Everyday in cold weather
A thick, heavily napped wool blanket woven on a narrow loom in strips and joined. It is a Bhotiya product that moved down the valleys as trade goods long before it became a craft-market item.
किस मौके पर: Winter
Heavy coats and knee-high woollen or hide-soled boots made for snow and for walking with a load. The pattern is closer to Tibetan dress than to anything worn in the middle hills, which is a fair summary of the whole valley.
किस मौके पर: Everyday above 3,000 m
A woollen cap in daily use and a wound cloth for ceremony. The black cap became a political marker during the Uttarakhand statehood agitation and has stayed one.
किस मौके पर: Everyday and ceremonial
बुनाई और कपड़े
Sheep and goat wool spun on a drop spindle and woven on a backstrap or pit loom into pankhi, thulma, and the dan or chutka floor rug in bold geometric registers. The trade the weaving belonged to ended in the early 1960s; the weaving survived by turning into a cooperative craft economy.
Hemp stem retted and twisted into rope, sacking and coarse footwear; bhimal bark used for cord and, wet, as a hair wash. Both are field-margin plants, and both were household manufacture rather than a trade.
Coarse local wool spun and woven for household use in the middle hills. It is scratchier than Bhotiya wool and was never a trade good, which is why it has no market name.
गहने
Garhwal का पारंपरिक पहनावा — कपड़े, हथकरघा बुनाई, जीआई टैग वाले वस्त्र और गहने। (9)