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

Amli - Needle work embroidery native to Kashmir

Ari - Awl-like hooked needle, often used for chain stitch embroidery Badam - A textile term for oval-shaped motifs

Badla - Flattened gold or silver wire

Badla Mukaish - Knots of badla sewn onto cloth

Baluchar - A type of brocaded silk sari Bandgala Achkan and shervani (lit. 'closed neck')

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

Bandi - A short jacket or waistcoat

Batik - A paste or wax resist dyeing technique Bel - A stylized creeper pattern

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

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

Choli - A woman's blouse or bodice usually tight-fitting

Chunari - A tie-dyed dotted pattern, a veil

Chunnat - Pleated or crimped gota ribbon

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

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

Dori - A cord

Dupatta - 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

Farshi - A wide legged trailing paijama

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

Ghaghra - A gathered skirt usually very flared Ghundi - A button made of silk or cotton, sometimes covered with gold or silver wire, held together with a loop

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

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

Gota Patti - Small leaf shapes made of gota

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

Ikkat - 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

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

Jaal - An all over pattern in a printed or embroidered fabric

Jala - 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

Jamavar -The trade name for the woven or embroidered Kashmir shawls

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

Jutis - Slip on shoes, usually elaborated embroidery and with unturned toes

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

Kali - A gored panel

Kalioyndar Paijama - A wide bottomed paijama made up of several panels

Kameez - A tunic

Kanchala Kundal - A type of earing

Kanchli - A sleeveless bodice worn in Western India

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

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

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

Kurti - A short kurta usually worn by women

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

Lehnga - A skirt

Libaas - An ensemble or dress

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

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

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

Moti - A bead or pearl

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

Odhini - 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

Pagri -The common term for a turban

Paijama -Drawstring trousers worn by men and women with many different styles

Paithani - Cotton and silk sari produced in Paithan

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

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

Patti - A border or edging

Peshwaz - A long high-waisted gown

Phulkari - Folk embroidery typical of the Punjab

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

Purdah - 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

Sari - 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

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

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

Shervani - A formal knee-length coat fitted to the waist

Sinjaf - The facing inside the hem of a garment

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

Teej - 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

Tikki / Tikki - Embroidery Metal discs used in zardozi embroidery

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

Zari - metal wrapped yarn used for zardozi embroidery