A mango-shaped motif - the paisley pattern (lit. 'rich')

Needle work embroidery native to Kashmir

A long-sleeved, full-skirted tunic for men, generally open at the chest and tied in front with an inner flap

Awl-like hooked needle, often used for chain stitch embroidery

A textile term for oval-shaped motifs

Flattened gold or silver wire

Knots of badla sewn onto cloth

A type of brocaded silk sari

Achkan and shervani (lit. 'closed neck')

The mode of tie-dyeing fabrics to form patterns (also known as bandhej)

A short jacket or waistcoat

A paste or wax resist dyeing technique

A stylized creeper pattern

A smaller version of a buta the term is used also to denote stylized animal motifs printed in block repeats

A term used by early European traders

Spotted

White embroidery, predominantly floral patterns, executed on fine white cotton with untwisted threads of white cotton or silk

Himalayan antelope

A woman's blouse or bodice usually tight-fitting

A tie-dyed dotted pattern, a veil

Pleated or crimped gota ribbon

Style of tight-fitting paijama, rouched from the knee to the ankles (lit. the paijama with bangles)

An unstitched garment used to drape the lower body, very much in use today

A cord

An unstitched length of material for the upper body traditionally worn by both sexes, but now mainly worn by women as part of a salwar kameez (paijama and tunic) ensemble

A wide legged trailing paijama

The juxtaposition of silver and gold in a woven pattern, named after the confluence of dark and light waters of the two sacred rivers

A gathered skirt usually very flared

Circumference, fullness of a garment

Saffron, ochre

A button made of silk or cotton, sometimes covered with gold or silver wire, held together with a loop

A metallic ribbon in which badla forms the weft and silk or cotton the wrap

A beaded cord covered with gota, often used for finishing ghaghra and jama hems

Small leaf shapes made of gota

The bottom part of a farshi paijama which is made up of three sections, often richly embellished

A lively and colourful festival celebrated on the last day of the month of Phalgun to welcome the onset of spring

The name of the pattern created by the tie-dyeing the weft and wrap threads before weaving which is a specially of Gujarat Orissa and Andhra Pradesh

The decorative drawstring at the waist of a lower garment, usually a ghaghra or a paijama with ornamented tasselled ends

An all over pattern in a printed or embroidered  fabric

A small wooden frame used by master craftsmen, on which threads are tied to form a grid of the wrap and weft outling the design of the weave

The storehouse for garments in the Mughal and other royal courts

The trade name for the woven or embroidered Kashmir shawls

A weaving technique traditional to the town of Tanda, Jais and Dacca used to produce figured muslins

A jewelled hair ornament worn on the side of the head

A bell-shaped piece of jewellery

Slip on shoes, usually elaborated embroidery and with unturned toes

Painted cloth (as a trade term it referred to both painted and printed cloths)

A gored panel

A wide bottomed paijama made up of several panels

A tunic

A type of earing

A sleeveless bodice worn in Western India

A complex weaving technique originating in Kashmir (known in the West as the double twill-tapestry technique)

Fabric made of handspun yarns, symbol of India's fight for Independent

A loose, stitched garment worn by men and women, most commonly described as a tunic (also known as a kameez)

A short kurta usually worn by women a type of grass fiber)

A pattern in which diagonal wavy stripes are formed by the fold-resist dyeing technique of the same name

A skirt

An ensemble or dress

A medium weight wrap faced satin or twill fabric with silk wrap and cotton weft

Coloured enamel jewellery, borders or butis woven with different coloured silk to give the appearance of enamel

A criss-cross pattern obtained through fold-resist dyeing in woven fabrics the term

A bead or pearl

Cotton, usually in reference to Indian muslin, particularly the muslin woven in Bengal

A veil, usually 3m x 1m, worn by women with a ghaghra, kurti and kanchli, it covers the head and the right shoulder, is drawn across the body and either tucked into the waistband or left hanging in front

The common term for a turban

Drawstring trousers worn by men and women with many different styles

Cotton and silk sari produced in Paithan

The decorative border at one or both ends of a length of fabric usually of a sari, odhani or patka

The wool made from the fleece of the underbelly of the rare Tibetan wild mountain goat

A border or edging

A long high-waisted gown

Folk embroidery typical of the Punjab

The ankle opening of a paijama, usually the salwar, which is often quilted or ornamented with decorative stitching

The practice of sequestering women, the flap of fabric in the angarkha that covers the chest, the pieces of fabric used to make up the cups of a choli

An unstitched length of fabric up to 9 yds in length and 18 to 60 in width with a decorated end panel draped in a wide variety of styles

The fleece of the tibetan chiru antelope that is spun and woven into fine shawls

A shawl

A baggy style of paijama tapered at the ankle worn mainly in the Punjab, Afghanistan and African garment

A formal knee-length coat fitted to the waist

The facing inside the hem of a garment

Tiny metal discs, often of gold or silver with a tiny hole at the centre

Figured silk with multiple supplementary weft threads, that create a heavy densly patterned fabric

A festival celebrating conjugal love, held in Northern and western India in The month of Shravan

Tikka     

A forehead ornament also used to refer to a bindi

Tikki      

Metal discs used in zardozi embroidery

Topi       

A cap    

Tussar   

A type of wild silk made in Eastern and Central India from hand spun yarns

Metal discs used in zardozi embroidery

Vastra    

Clothes

Gold thread embroidery using metallic elements and threads, sometimes mirrors, precious or semi precious stones

metal wrapped yarn used for zardozi embroidery