Costumes of meghalaya

3.  Megh – cloud, alaya- house.
 Situated north east part of India.
 Very beautiful state which has
peaceful hills.
 Garos, khasi $ Jaintias –these are
famous hill tribes of India.
 People of Meghalaya are known for
their weaving skills.

5. The most skilled weavers of the
region.
Almost every family earn their
live hood through weaving.

8.  Traditional Womens wear.
 Made with mulbery silk.
 Unstitched garment.
 Woven fabric.
 Wrapped around to cover the body.

10.  Made with endi silk threads.
 Sonidan is the hub of “endi” in
meghalaya.
 Produced with natural soothing
shade creame, white, brown, beige
and gold.
 Favorites of any fashion addict of
india.

12. Short piece of cloth “Eking”.
Women drape it round the waist
in remote areas of garo hill
village.
While men wear a “loincloth”.

14. Unstitched cloth.
Hand woven.
Has 6 to 10” wide beautiful
border with diff. pattern $
motifs.
In crowded area garos women
wear it with blouse.

18.  Used by khasi women.
 Made with cotton.
 Woven fabric.
 Upper part of her body is clad in a
blouse.
 Over these she ties both of ends of a
check cloth on one shoulder.

21.  Traditional former wear of women.
 Made with munga silk.
 Long piece of fabric.
 Hangs below the knees.
 Knotted or printed at the shoulder.

23. Head shawl.
Worn by knotting both ends
behind the neck.

24. Strip of cloth.
Woven fabric.
Used by senior women.

25. Traditional costume of men is:-
 Unstitched
 Woven fabric
 Worn to cover lower part of body.
But these days they have adopted western
code of dressing.

27.  Traditional men’s wear.
 Longish sleeveless coat without
collar.
 Fastened by thongs in front.

30. Used by maidens and
women.
Check print cloth.
Tied round the head during
harvesting.

32. For formal occasion.
Long velvet blouse.
From shoulder to the ankles
with the skirt.
Wrapped round the waist.

33. Women tribes embellish themselves
with the:-
 Earrings
 Other ornament of pure silver $
gold.
 Silver circlet round the head for a
fore head decoration.

35. Pendent
Made of 24 carot gold.

36. String of thick red coral
beads.
Wears during festive
occasion.
Over round neck.

37. Wear by garos ladies.
Which are thin fluted stems of
glass strung by fine threads.

38. Baskets

39.  Attractive motifs.
 Floral pattern.
 Flowers are used.
 Used for borders.
 Surface
ornamentation .

41. Red ,orange, white ,blue
,creame$ black are mostly used.

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