Ayyampettai Satin silk sari

Silk Satin handwoven in cream with stripes, sari weighs around 800-900 gms. This is a recreation of the Forbes Watson catalogue. Woven without a blouse
 
Edgar Thurston in 1896 refers to the "beautiful satins of Ayyampet" - E B Havell praises the satin weaving in Ayyampettai as " a beautiful industry which has hitherto attracted little notice"
19th-century paintings from Thanjavur depict men and women wearing garments out of these plain stripe fabrics, with and without ikat patterning.