Murshidabad in West Bengal is also famous for its cowdial saris made of fine mulberry silk with flat, deep-red or maroon borders, made with the help of three shuttles. The borders are topped with a fine serrated design in gold zari and a few fine lines in gold on the ground of the sari, close to the borders. The fine gold lines are supposed to resemble the fine trail left on its path by a live cowrie mollusc-thus giving it its name, cowdial.