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Old Mysore · Deccan Inland Plateau
The region's contribution to Indian dress is a fibre and a finish rather than a cut. Sericulture was introduced here as state policy in the 1780s and rebuilt as state industry in the twentieth century, and the result is a silk defined by weight and plainness — a heavy crepe or georgette body, a narrow zari border, and no figured field at all. It is the opposite of the temple-bordered brocade woven three hundred kilometres east, and the two are told apart across a room.
क्या पहना जाता है
Pure mulberry silk in a plain or minimally patterned body with a zari border and pallu, traditionally 100 grams of zari to a saree. Its identity is restraint — one colour, a clean border, and enough weight that it falls rather than floats.
किस मौके पर: Weddings, festivals, formal occasions
Woven north of this region but worn throughout it, and worth naming because the contrast defines local taste — the northern saree carries a red pallu and a strong border, the local one does not.
किस मौके पर: Everyday formal
The unstitched lower cloth worn either loose or hitched at the knee (kachche), with a shalya cloth over one shoulder. Still ordinary dress among older men in the villages of the canal belt and mandatory at certain temples.
किस मौके पर: Everyday and ceremonial
The gold-bordered turban of the Mysore court, wound to a distinct flat-fronted shape and now given as an honour at public functions rather than worn daily. Handing someone a peta is a formal act with its own protocol.
किस मौके पर: Ceremonial, weddings, honours
The nine-yard saree drawn between the legs and tucked at the back, which leaves the legs free for field work. It survives among older women in the dry belt and at certain rituals where it is required.
किस मौके पर: Everyday
बुनाई और कपड़े
Registered as a geographical indication. The chain is unusually complete for an Indian textile — mulberry grown, cocoons reeled and sold at the Ramanagara and Sidlaghatta markets, silk twisted and woven, and the state corporation's own mill at Mysuru stamping each saree with a code and a hologram, because counterfeiting the name has been a live problem since the 1990s.
A registered geographical indication from just beyond the region's northern edge, listed here because the contrast is the point — heavier figured borders than the Mysore style, and the line where one taste ends and the other begins runs through the shops that stock both.
The everyday cotton weaving of the canal belt, largely displaced by power looms but still producing towels, panche and the coarse cotton used for temple offerings.
गहने
Old Mysore का पारंपरिक पहनावा — कपड़े, हथकरघा बुनाई, जीआई टैग वाले वस्त्र और गहने। (8)