Silk Brocade Fabric
                     Silk Brocade Fabric
Brocade fabric Online Fabrics are the best business 
for any person especially Silk Brocade Fabric as it has 
a lot of variation and scope. You will see many local 
street vendors who deal in a variety of clothesline 
and offer a wide range of products. They have so 
many shades and colors that you will be awestruck 
with the collection. But when it comes to local 
vendors and online shopping portals they have 
better and more range of products to be offered. For 
instance, brocade fabric which is made out of silk 
material. The fabric has many designs which 
mesmerize the shopper and make sure they buy it to 
be worn.
What is brocade
• Brocades Fabric is a rich jacquard fabric with intricate designs on its surface which 
looks as if they are embossed or embroidered but are made by weaving 
supplementary weft yarns (silk or silver/golden zari; single color or multi-colored) into 
the warp on a special jacquard loom. 
• The patterns can be simple shapes like scrolls, flowers, or animals or as intricate as 
they come.
• The fabric usually has a twill or satin background and is typically thick and heavy.
• In the making of brocade fabric, the shuttles that move the thread are used only on 
the places where the patterns are supposed to be. Hence the weft thread is 
discontinuous on the fabric. 
• For small designs, if you look at the back of a brocade fabric, you may see only the 
base fabric, but on the surface, you will find the pattern. This saves a lot of thread too.
• Silk Brocade Fabric
This is a beautiful brocade fabric which is soft smooth and very 
lustrous. Initially, this used to be the way brocade was made.
• Cotton Brocades Fabri
This brocade has subtler patterns and is lightweight than the silk 
brocade. Jamdani, Balucar, Paithani, Himru are these kinds of brocades 
made in India. Jamdani is a very fine brocade. Cotton fabric is brocaded 
with cotton and sometimes zari threads. Himru is a cotton silk brocade.
• Zari Brocade Fabric
This brocade fabric has gold and silver thread weaved to form the patterns. 
Brocade saris of India are made of this – gold or silver zari is used along with 
colored silks to create various intricate motifs in this brocade fabric.
Originally zari was made of real silver of 98 percent purity but as this is not 
feasible synthetic zari is used. Gold threads are actually only silver threads 
with gold polish, which are obtained by closely winding extremely fine silver 
wire around a silk thread.
The motifs usually used in Indian Brocade are that of floral bouquets, 
flowers, stars and the moon, betel leaf etc.
Banarasi Brocade 
Brocade fabrics are mostly used for upholsteries and draperies. 
Semi-precious stones to adorn brocade fabrics have been replaced with 
sequins and beads for decoration. Banarasi brocade fabric and Banarasi 
brocade silk sarees are extremely popular worldwide. Patterns that are 
traditionally used on brocade fabrics are now used on western 
garments as well. Wearing Banarasi brocade is considered highly lavish, 
even in the formal events, such garments are usually styled with 
equally heavy jewelry.