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Kunbi kapadKunbi and Gawda women

A short cotton sari in a red or blue check, knotted over one shoulder so both arms are free and the hem clears the mud. It was worn without a blouse until the twentieth century, is unstitched and needs no fitting, and was near-extinct as everyday dress before designers took it up as a Goan emblem.

किस मौके पर: Field work, and now revival and ceremonial wear

Pano bhajuHindu women

A silk or cotton sari draped with a separately tailored bodice, worn with the kanttem and the nose ring. It is the formal Konkani Hindu dress of the region and reads as distinct from Maharashtrian nauvari at a glance, because it is draped straight rather than passed between the legs.

किस मौके पर: Weddings, zatras and temple visits

The Catholic bridal gown and veilCatholic brides

A white gown, veil and gloves, adopted wholesale from Portuguese practice and normal in Goan Catholic villages generations before it became common elsewhere in India. The betrothal jewellery, not the dress, carries the Goan element.

किस मौके पर: Church weddings

Kashti and toalToddy tappers, fishermen and khazan workers

A loincloth and a shoulder cloth, worn by men working in water or climbing palms. The tapper's version carries the knife pouch and the pot sling, and the palm-climbing rope is part of the outfit.

किस मौके पर: Everyday work

Kunbi-check shirt and the tiatr suitMen

Rural Goan men's dress absorbed the Portuguese shirt early; the tiatr stage formalised the suit, hat and brass-band uniform as performance dress, and the checked Kunbi cloth returned as a shirt in the same period.

किस मौके पर: Village performance and stage

Kunbi weaveSalcete, Quepem and Canacona

A coarse handwoven cotton in a small red-and-white or blue check, the only indigenous Goan handloom of record. Commercial weaving of it had almost stopped by the late twentieth century and what exists now is revival production, much of it woven outside Goa to Goan patterns.

Goan crochet and laceBardez and Salcete

Filet crochet and cutwork taught through convent schools from the nineteenth century, used on altar cloths, church linen and household napery. It survives in parish workrooms and in a handful of older households rather than as a trade.

Coir and palm-leaf workCoastal Bardez, Salcete and Canacona

Coconut husk retted in brackish backwater and spun into rope for fishing gear and khazan bund work, and palm leaf plaited into roofing and basketry. Nylon has taken most of the rope market.