Ikat weaving town
Pochampally
A weaving town in Telangana whose saris carry bold geometric ikat patterns with softly blurred edges.
Why Pochampally is ikat red
Pochampally, formally Bhoodan Pochampally, is a town east of Hyderabad in Telangana. It gives its name to a style of ikat, a cloth in which the pattern is dyed into the threads before weaving. Bundles of yarn are tied tightly in places and dipped in dye; the tied parts stay undyed. When the threads are woven, the pattern appears with a slightly feathered edge, the mark of real ikat. Pochampally designs are geometric: diamonds, squares and stripes, often in red, black and white, though every colour is now used. Weaving spread widely here in the 20th century. The saris, in silk and cotton, received a geographical indication in 2005.
Values are fair approximations of what the eye sees there, not measurements.
Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Bhoodan Pochampally" on Wikipedia. If you know Pochampally and we have it wrong, tell us.
More colour cities
All colour cities
๐ฎ๐ณ The Blue CityJodhpurOld-city houses washed in blue crowd the foot of Mehrangarh Fort, on the edge of the Thar Desert.
๐ฎ๐ณ The Pink CityJaipurThe walled city wears a dusty terracotta pink, first painted on for a royal visit in 1876 and kept ever since.
๐ฎ๐ณ The White CityUdaipurWhite palaces and whitewashed houses stand around lakes in the Aravalli hills of southern Rajasthan.
๐ฎ๐ณ The Golden CityJaisalmerA fort and town built of yellow sandstone that glows like honey at sunset, deep in the Thar Desert.
๐ฎ๐ณ City of saffron and lightVaranasiSaffron robes, marigold garlands and oil lamps colour the river steps of one of the oldest living cities.
๐ฎ๐ณ Town of Holi coloursVrindavanFor Holi the temple town of Krishna's childhood fills with clouds of pink, yellow and green powder.Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Jodhpur In: Lavpatel2008, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Jaipur In: Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Udaipur In: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Jaisalmer In: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, source
- Varanasi In: Marcin Biaลek, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vrindavan In: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source