Dharmavaram

Kriya Shakthi Vodavaru Swamy founded a town in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh and named it Dharmavaram after his mother’s name Dharmamba. The town is blessed with numerous mulberry trees which makes it a favorable place for sericulture. So naturally, this town becomes a hotspot for silk weaving and there are your Dharmavaram Silk sarees. These pure silk Dharmavaram sarees got national recognition by the 19th century because of their extraordinary weaving styles and designs. 

In the beginning, these sarees were woven just for wedding purposes in the shades of red and yellow but with the evolving time, the weavers have introduced the saree in almost all the possible colors and with evolving designs, motifs, and embellishments to meet the market demand. 

There is a huge demand for Dharmavaram sarees today in the global market, so the process of weaving them is partially mechanized to help the craftsmen meet the required demand. Today these sarees have secured their position as a “must-have” in people’s wardrobe with such a vast demand that it has become hard to believe that Dharamavaram got its national recognition just a century ago. 

Today there are around 15 hundred Dharmavaram silk manufacturing openings with over 1 lakh handlooms.