Legendary Indian Machine Embroidery Designs Revisited
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Indian machine embroidery designs are one of the most well-known worldwide.
Embroidery as such has always been part of India cultural heritage and the craft is practiced on a great extension of the country.
We cannot talked about embroidery or Machine embroidery without talking about Indian Machine Embroidery Designs, since India is one of the most famous country as far textile embroidery is concerned and also since it is one of the strength of its economy.
Indian traditions are colorful by nature because of the many cultures, religions and customs that are established in its land.
We can appreciate that in its music, paintings and dance and infinite religious ceremonies year around.
This cocktail of beliefs makes of this fabulous country an emblematic geographical land of the world, where a specific type of embroidery can be attributed to a particular region.
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So much so, there are many types of embroidery styles. Here we will mention only a few to illustrate our article and there are:
*Chikankari
*Kantha Embroidery
*Mirror Work
*Phulkari
*Zardozi
*Rajasthani patchwork
*Kashidakari
So famous is the embroidery craft work of India that it has been behind and in front of some of the most world fashion shows. So important embroidery has become in fashion that it was featured in Vogue UK on the 7th of February 2017:
“A tide of workers heading home in this crowded Indian city, cars honking, trucks painted as vividly as the colors of the saris, cows wandering past makeshift stalls, and then – POW! – a serpent wrapped round a tiger fighting for its life.
A tiger? In Mumbai?
I am facing a wall of birds, butterflies, flowers, and jungle creatures from which I immediately recognize the tiger embroidered on the back of my own Gucci coat.”
What I like about embroidery machine designs is that it allows people, companies and groups of people to personalize their creations and brand themselves. Anyone can express its uniqueness through the magic of embroidery.
Truly India has a rich culture due to what it had borrowed from the innumerable invasions and settlements throughout its history, but like its women have no comparison in beauty, strength, creativity, intelligence and so much more. I love the country and its entire people and I am thrilled to write about its embroidery craft.
“Aari” is another style that I did not mention above, this one style among my favorite styles and this how Wikipedia puts it:
“Aari work involves a hook, plied from the top but fed by silk thread from below with the material spread out on a frame. This movement creates loops, and repeats of these lead to a line of chain stitches. The fabric is stretched on a frame and stitching is done with a long needle ending with a hook such as a crewel, tambour (a needle similar to a very fine crochet hook but with a sharp point) or Luneville work.
The other hand feeds the thread from the underside, and the hook brings it up, making a chainstitch, but it is much quicker than chainstitch done in the usual way: looks like machine-made and can also be embellished with sequins and beads – which are kept on the right side, and the needle goes inside their holes before plunging below, thus securing them to the fabric.
Aari embroidery is practiced in various regions such as in Kashmir and Kutch (Gujarat).”
The textile industry is one of the most thriving industries of the country and skill embroidery works are found in India, so much so that; as far as Indian Machine Embroidery Designs are concerned today “India gets upfront in designers’ minds” says the financial Times.
“Nigel Preston may not be a household name but the late British designer was known to fashion connoisseurs for his luxurious sheepskin, suede and leather coats and clothes, with their painterly techniques and detailed ornamentation. He died in 2008 but his wife, Brenda Knight, who designed garments for brands such as Jaeger and Burberry, has continued his brand – at her own factory in India.”
Read full article here by the Financial Times.
Also Hollywood is helping put Indian craftwork on the map.
“For years now, high-end French labels like Dior, Balenciaga, and Christian Louboutin have been outsourcing their applied decoration (like embroidery) to India. Street-fashion brands like Zara, Mango, Promod, and Levi’s produce many of their clothes in India, too. It’s a big business with a dark underbelly: there have been years of reports of ongoing mistreatment of sweatshop laborers and homeworkers forced to manufacture clothes on their kitchen floors for deplorable pay.”
Original article by Ananya Bhattacharya
In of my articles on the homeembroiderymachine.com site I mentioned that embroidery as a craft is making a strong come back on the world fashion platform and is influencing most the greatest designers of all time, well I wrote rightly about it. Found out here:
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