GI Tag
The products of this district that carry a Geographical Indication.
Made here, and nowhere else
A Geographical Indication is a legal mark that ties a product to the place it comes from: only goods actually made in the region, in the way the registration describes, may carry the name. These are the registered products of Mysuru district.
Mysore Silk
Pure mulberry silk woven on the looms the state has run in Mysuru since 1912, finished with the zari border the saree is known for.
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Mysore Sandalwood Oil
Oil distilled from Santalum album heartwood, the base of the perfume and soap industry the city grew around.
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Mysore Sandal Soap
Made with that oil at the government factory set up in 1916, and still made to the same formulation.
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Mysore Agarbathi
Hand-rolled incense, an industry of many small workshops and one the city has exported from for a century.
Mysore Rosewood Inlay
Rosewood furniture and panels with motifs cut and set into the surface piece by piece.
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Mysore Traditional Paintings
Mysore PaintingGesso work under thin gold foil, usually of deities and court subjects, in the style the Wadiyar court kept alive.
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Mysore Ganjifa Cards
Round hand-painted playing cards, once a court game and now practised by very few painters.
Mysore Betel Leaf
Mysore Vilyedele, ChigureleThe soft local betel leaf, grown in shrinking pockets around the city and sold in Devaraja Market.
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Mysore Mallige
Mysore JasmineJasminum sambac, grown around Mysuru and into Mandya, and one of the three Karnataka jasmines registered together.
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Nanjangud Banana
Nanjangud RasabaleA short, intensely sweet banana grown around Nanjangud, in this district, and difficult to cultivate anywhere else.
MoreSpecialities without a registration
Named here because visitors ask for them by name, and separated from the list above because they are not GI registrations.
Mysuru Peta
The royal turban, in silk or cotton, still presented at formal occasions.
Mysore Pak
Ghee, sugar and gram flour, first made in the palace kitchen.
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Mysuru Masala Dosa
The city’s own dosa, with a spiced potato filling.
MoreThe Geographical Indications Registry of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks is the authority on what is registered and when; published counts for Karnataka and for this district differ between sources, so none is repeated here. Product descriptions on the district administration’s site are at mysore.nic.in. Two photographs are used under Creative Commons licences and are credited on the picture itself; 1 products are shown without a photograph until the department supplies one.
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