Lucknawi Haute Couture
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Lucknawi Haute Couture working with lucknows original hand embroideries & fabrics. CHICKAN WORK:-Lucknow, in Uttar Pradesh, was and is the centre of Chikan embroidery, renowned for its timeless grace and its gossamer delicacy, a skill more than 200 years old --- exploited, commercialis but not dead. In fact, the craft is alive and struggling to regain some of its former beauty and elegance. Chikan embroidery is done on fine cotton fabric. The garments whereas skirts, saris, and table linen are first embroidered and then finishedThe word Chikan is a derivative from the Persian word &＃39;Chikan&＃39; meaning draperyIn Chikan, the needle is held in the right hand while inserting it into the fabric, the left hand supports and controls the thread so that the stitches take the right shape. In traditional Chikan no frames were used (though they are used now); the portion of the cloth to be embroidered is placed over the index finger of the left hand, supported by the rest of the fingers, leaving the thumb free. The needle is pulled away from the embroiderer who starts from the nearest end and finished at the farthest end.Chikan embroidery has a repertoire of about 40 stitches of which about 30 are still being used. These can be broadly divided into 3 heads - flat stitches, raised and embossed stitches, and the open trellis-like jaali work. Some of these have equivalents in other embroideries, the rest are manipulations that make them distinctive and unique. They cover almost all the embroidery stitches of the country and have interesting and descriptiveThe main flat stitches with their traditional names are:-Taipchi, Ghaspatti, Bel Buti, Jamdani, .Pechni,, Pashni,,Bakhia,Ulta Bakhia,Sidhi BakhiaGitti, Jangira, Murri, Phanda, Jaalis
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