Chanderi sarees are among the most elegant sarees, adding beauty and charm to anybody wearing one. These sarees come in various colors, different colours, and unique designs with stunning boundaries to die for. The Chanderi fabric is versatile and stunning with its delicate golden threads or zari found at the boundaries and all over the fabric that covers the motifs add grace to the saree.Chanderi suits such as the Chanderi Anarkali salwar suits, Chanderi chudidars, and many others you can get at stylecaret are very attractive with the fabric 's brightness. This fabric can accommodate additional add-ons such as embroidery work, crystals, kundan stones, semi-precious stones, and so on to enhance the saree 's look.
Old texts speak of Madhya Pradesh as a popular center of weaving between the 7th and 2nd centuries BC. One of MadhyaPradesh 's historical identities is located at the state's two cultural regions frontier, Malwa and Bundelkhand. Contemporarily, its location near the trade routes, connecting Malwa, Mewad and Central India to the South and Gujrat ports, gave it the importance in the eleventh century. It was an important ancient Jain culture centre.
This region was dominated from time to time by Mughals, Rajputs, and Maratha dynasties. Kings and Kingdoms, Badshahs and Sultans, wars won and lost, Queens who performed Johar, Palaces, Forts, Doors and what not, who gave Chanderi name and fame, now remain only a part of stories and fables; but what survived in the 12th and 13th centuries AD until today is the magic of Chanderi's weave known to the rich and middle class of India as 'Chanderi Saris.'
Record of cloth weaving tradition from the 13th century is available. At first, weavers were mainly Muslims. Jhansi's Koshti weavers migrated to Chanderi in 1350, and settled here. During Mughal period Chanderi's clothing company reached its height. Chandri's cloth length was sent folded and packed to Mughal Badshah Akbar in a hollow of a bamboo, a whole Elephant might have been hidden by its length when taken out. This has been the delicacy and beauty of those days of weaving. This art of weaving also used to hypnotize people during Jahangir 's reign.
Jain group has existed in Chanderi for quite a long time. Chanderi is home to many Jain temples and pilgrimages. It is said that turbans made only of Chanderi cloth were worn at Gajrath Samaharos, kept between 1436 and 1468. The uniqueness of the Chanderi fabrics has been stated by Chroniclers of Chanderi history. Tieffenthaler, a Jesuit priest who remained innearby Marwar from 1740 to 1761, stated in his 1776 De L'Inde definition that "very fine cloth is woven here and exported abroad." One by-product of this was the growth of new weaving centres; Chanderi rose to prominence as a manufacturer of cloth at the back of the raw cotton boom.
Local Weavers began using mill spun thread in the 19th century. Then Silk thread was preferred due to the fact that the mill spun cotton thread could not produce the necessary shine which was Chanderi cloth specialty. It was the time when 'woven air' had begun to lose its meaning, which was the term to define the exclusivity of Chanderi cloth.