Panche and kanduvaMen, rural
A cotton dhoti, worn short and knotted for fieldwork and let down full for a temple or a jatara, with a shoulder cloth used as head-pad, towel and water filter.
किस मौके पर: Everyday and festival
इस क्षेत्र का अनुवाद अभी इस भाषा में नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए यह अंग्रेज़ी में दिखाया जा रहा है।
Rayalaseema · Deccan Inland Plateau
पहनावा और वस्त्र
A dryland region with no silk of its own became a silk-weaving centre because a temple economy needed ceremonial cloth and would pay for it. Dharmavaram sits in the least watered district in the Telugu country and weaves heavy mulberry-silk sarees with broad gold borders; Sri Kalahasti, on the wetter slope, paints temple hangings by hand. Both are craft economies attached to shrines rather than to markets, which is why they survived when the cotton handloom did not.
क्या पहना जाता है
Dharmavaram pattu sareeWomen
Heavy mulberry silk with a broad contrast border and a densely brocaded pallu, made to hold its shape and to last a generation. Traditionally the bridal saree of the region.
किस मौके पर: Weddings and temple occasions
Langa voniGirls and young women
A long skirt with fitted blouse and a draped half-saree, still standard at temple functions.
किस मौके पर: Festivals and family occasions
Madi vastramMen and women, at temples
Unstitched cloth — dhoti with an upper cloth for men, saree for women — required for sanctum entry at Tirumala, Srisailam and Sri Kalahasti. It is a dress code with real force, and the cloth is on sale at every temple gate.
किस मौके पर: Entering a sanctum
Lambadi phetiya and kanchaliBanjara women, Kurnool and Anantapur tandas
Mirror-worked and embroidered skirt with a backless bodice and coin, cowrie and ivory ornament — a western Indian dress vocabulary carried south by caravan trade and kept intact.
किस मौके पर: Festivals, weddings
बुनाई और कपड़े
Dharmavaram handloom pattu sareesजीआई टैगSri Sathya Sai (Dharmavaram)
Mulberry silk with broad gold-zari borders woven on jacquard-fitted pit looms, in a cluster of several thousand looms. Registered as a geographical indication in 2013–14. The town also weaves the heavy silk used to dress temple images.
Srikalahasti Kalamkariजीआई टैगTirupati (Sri Kalahasti)
Cotton cloth drawn on freehand with a bamboo pen, using mordants and natural dyes, in narrative panels of temple subjects. Registered as a geographical indication in 2004–05. It is a painted textile, not a printed one, and the distinction from Machilipatnam's block-printed kalamkari on the coast is fundamental.
Yemmiganur and Adoni cotton durriesKurnool
Thick cotton floor-spreads and coarse cottons woven on pit looms in the Tungabhadra towns, sustained by institutional and export orders. Not GI-protected.
Venkatagiri — a neighbour, not a local clothजीआई टैगTirupati district, but culturally the Nellore coastal belt
Included to place it correctly. Venkatagiri's fine jamdani-technique cotton, GI-registered in 2011–12, belongs to the coastal Nellore weaving tradition rather than to the dryland interior, even though modern district boundaries now put the town in the same administrative unit as Tirupati.
गहने
Vaddanam — the hinged waist belt worn with a wedding sareeKasula peruvu — a necklace strung with gold coinsPapidi billa and nethi chutti, worn along the partingMukkupudaka and besari nose ornamentsSilver kadiyalu, mettelu and gajjelu in the villagesCoin, cowrie and white metal ornament among the Lambada
Rayalaseema का पारंपरिक पहनावा — कपड़े, हथकरघा बुनाई, जीआई टैग वाले वस्त्र और गहने। (9)