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| Silk Industry |
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| The temple city of Kanchipuram is also the silk city of India. The sarees manufactured here are famous across the globe. The glamour of the Kanchipuram silk sarees in its colour contrasts. Temple borders, checks, stripes and floral "buttas" are traditional designs you will find in a Kanchipuram sarees. In a genuine Kanchipuram sarees, the border, body and border are woven separately and then interlocked together. The joint is woven so strongly that even if the sarees tears, the border will not detach. |
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Kanchipuram has more than thousands of handlooms and skilled weavers that make its silk sarees one of the best in the entire world. About 75% of Kanchipuram's population is dependent on the Silk Sarees industry, either directly or indirectly.
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The Kanchipuram does not manufacture Silk or any other raw material that goes into its silk sarees. The Silk industry is entirely made up of Handloom weavers and merchants. The raw materials that make go into the making of these wonderful sarees in Kanchipuram. The major raw materials are mulberry silk thread and metallic thread (Zari) and dye. The mulberry silk thread comes from the neighboring state of Karnataka, the metallic thread which is interwoven with the silk to give the metallic look comes from Gujarat, and none of the dyes are manufactured in Kanchipuram itself. But all these materials are brought here, and the skilled artisans weave these sarees on handlooms, each sarees becoming a unique hand-made work of art.
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