Silk
One District One Product · Murshidabad
Murshidabad is a historic silk district producing fine mulberry silk and Murshidabad silk sarees.
- District
- Murshidabad
- State
- West Bengal
- Region
- East
- Category
- Textile
Why source from Murshidabad
Murshidabad is a historic Bengal silk district producing fine mulberry silk yarn and the lightweight Murshidabad silk sarees once favoured by the nawabs' courts. The cluster's sericulture and handloom base supplies smooth, lustrous silk that takes printing and painting especially well. Its heritage and supple mulberry silk make Murshidabad a source for apparel and scarf buyers seeking a refined, paintable base cloth.
Sourcing Silk from West Bengal
Silk is Murshidabad's designated One District One Product — India's programme to concentrate skill, infrastructure and branding behind a single flagship line per district. For a sourcing buyer that concentration is the advantage: a deep base of specialised makers, mature local supply of raw materials, and competitive pricing all sitting in one cluster.
As a Textile product, Silk is built on loom and dye skill, so colourfastness, shrinkage and dye-lot consistency are the specifications to lock down. Murshidabad weavers usually work to made-to-order runs, and many can supply the Handloom Mark or relevant fabric-testing documentation that export buyers expect.
Silk comes out of Murshidabad in West Bengal, part of the East region's wider export base. MadeFromIndia maps the verified clusters behind it, benchmarks landed cost against rival origins, and handles introductions, sampling and quality oversight so you can move from shortlist to first order with confidence.
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