The Silk Fabrics success story from India to the international pavilion

India is adorned with not only natural beauty but everything from organic food to organic fabrics that offer a comfort in itself. Silk fabrics and made ups are manufactured in India, irrespective of the fact that, these are one of the most expensive ones available in the market.

Its richness and splendour has pushed the Indian weddings a step further and they are certainly incomplete without a Benarasi or Patta Silk Saree. Even if the machine loom silk is gaining popularity over hand woven natural silk, the charm of a natural silk saree or a dress fabric is par excellence.

Indian Silk is categorised into the following types.

Mulberry Silk, Tasar Silk, Muga Silk and Eri Silk are the most popular ones obtained in the Indian sub-continent.The silk worms feed on Mulberry leaves and basically produced in the states of Karnataka, Andra Pradesh, Tamilnadu and Jammu Kashmir, Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh have also their own silk fabrics for sarees and madeups, which are hugely popular.

Muga Silk Fabrics offer a golden yellow colored silk basically produced in the state of Assam. Antheraeaassamensis is the Silk worm producing this beautiful silk yarn by feeding on the leaves of aromatic plants like Soalu and Som.

Tasar silk is copper colored silk which is coarse in texture, basically used for home furnishing and madeups. The semi-domesticated silk worms Antheraeamylitta thriving on Arjun and Asan plants in the open.

Plain silk, satin, dupion, organza, crepe, chiffon, charkha silk, Murshidabad silk, matka silk and a various other types of silk fabrics are manufactured in power looms or hand woven from the four basic silks. International markets are opening up to welcome the natural silk fabrics and appreciating the natural silk to their best. It would definitely bring more revenues for the fashion designers as well as the silk producers across the country.