Hand Embroidery in India Kashmiri Embroidery The Kashmiri embroidery is traditionally known as Kashida Embroidery. These are objects of rare beauty. Kashmir...
Category - Hand Embroidery
Tribal embroidery in India, is mostly done in straight stitches of different lengths made in various thicknesses of yarn. The effect is achieved not by the...
Lucknow is famous for chikan embroidery. The word chikan just means embroidery. The Chikan embroidery was done on a locally woven muslin called tanzeb, the...
In Kannada the word for embroidery is Kasuti. As with the chikan of Lucknow so with the Kasuti of Karnataka the word has become identified with the particular...
Bihar has one of the longest art traditions in the country. The University of Nalanda was renowned not only for its disciplines of Humanities and the Sciences...
Embroidery has for centuries been part of the education of every well brought up Punjabi girl. The Granth Sahib, the religious book of the Sikhs, says “Kadh...
The Kashmiri embroidery is known as Kashida, a Persian word which, among others, means embroidery as well as drawing. The Kashmiri hand embroidery work uses...
Kathiawar, which took its name from the Kathis, shows a strongly folk element in its embroidery. Kathiawar is very rich in embroidered goods since the art is...
The Sindhi hand embroidery work shows a delicacy and refinement that can only be the result of court patronage. Even though Sind is no longer a part of India...
The folk hand embroidery of Kutch is done in cotton thread on cotton cloth. Yellow, saffron, white, purple and green are favourite colors. The work is done...
