Monday, March 9, 2009

Beautiful Stitches

Embroidery has varied styles and forms across the world. There are manifold embroidery types in India itself. Every State of the country has an art form of traditional embroidery to cherish. There is immense beauty in this art whichever State it may originate from. The cultural heritage of this art is a treasure to be preserved.
Traditional and modern embrodery work combined together produce exquisite pieces of art. The embroidery styles are innumerable but to name a few we have, Kantha, phulkari, zardozi, parsi, neemzari, goti patta, aari, chikankari, sitara, dabka, kundan, resham, shibori, kashmiri/kashida, dori, shibori, mirror work, beads, meenakari, booti, sequin work, stone work, zari work, cutdana, etc.
Chikankari, kantha, parsi, kashmiri and zardozi are some of my top favourite emroidery styles.

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