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Phulkari ( Punjabi: ਫੁਲਕਾਰੀ) refers to the folk embroidery of the Punjab. Although Phulkari means floral work, the designs include not only flowers but also cover motifs and geometrical shapes. A variety of Kashida embroidery is Raffugiri embroidery. In this embroidery technique, both sides of the cloth will look the same after the work is done. Service, Tribune News. "The past and present of Phulkari". Tribuneindia News Service . Retrieved 1 February 2020. Chope: this Phulkari embroidery is made by the bride’s maternal grandmother (naani) when the bride was born. The Holbein stitch is used in the chope phulkari and so, both the sides of the phulkari contain the same design. Chope is used to wrap the bride after her ritual bath on her wedding day. The chope is embroidered with one color and it is monochrome. In addition to being worn on the body as an odhini(head cloth), phulkaris were also placed on ( charpoy) woven cots as seat covers for special guests, draped on dowry chests or hung in the home as decoration during religious festivals, and presented to temples or gurudwaras (a Sikh house of worship) to present to a deity or to cover the Guru Granth Sahib (the Sikh holy book).

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The biggest challenge to hand-embroidered Phulkaris today is that the market is flooded with relatively inexpensive machine made Phulkaris manufactured in factories in Amritsar and Ludhiana. As consumers become less discerning and as there is improvisation and innovation in machine embroidery, even stalls at Dilli Haat have begun retailing machine made Phulkaris on synthetic fabrics along with high quality hand embroidered Phulkaris. Phulkari embroidery is a painstaking and time-consuming art that strains the eyes, and, as many women work indoors with poor lighting, it leads to the deterioration of their eyesight over time. Relatively low remunerations have made it an economically unviable option for many young women who do not want to take it up as a means of livelihood. Chope Phulkari, 20th century. The Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Phulkari Collection. Image Credit: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Personal Affect As this art is difficult and time consuming, it is not in practice these days in original form except very few phulkari and bagh pieces, which can be seen and bought from state emporiums and places, such as Surajkund Mela and DilliHaat. Phulkari motifs are embroidered on all types of fabrics, such as terry voile, chiffons etc. Machine embroidered imitations of the motifs are also made. Phulkari: An Adult Coloring Book of Stress Relieving Floral Patterns from the Ancient Textiles of Northern India for Relaxation, Happiness and Meditation. [Soft Cover ]Art and Crafts of Haryana also include sculpture and murals both of Persian and Mughal style. Woven furniture, artistic sheet metalwork, wooden bed making zari & Tila Jutti(leather footwear), lacework, bone carving and some of the artistic craft that Haryana is known for. Meenakari Bagh: this bagh is usually made with gold and white-colored pat and it is decorated with small multicolored diamonds.

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The main stitch used in phulkari is the darning stitch and the geometrical designs embroidered with this stitch form the basis of phulkari. At times, other than geometrical designs are also embroidered and become stylized because the darning stitch is worked in straight lines. Other stitches, such as chain, stem, blanket, running, herringbone, and buttonhole, are used occasionally. a b c "SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE: Crafting an artistic future". The Tribune. 1 December 2002 . Retrieved 23 April 2013. Shailaja D. Naik (1996). "Phulkari of Punjab". Traditional Embroideries Of India. APH Publishing. ISBN 8170247314. Women Empowerment Through Phulkari Program, The Nabha Foundation, Punjab, India https://thenabhafoundation.org/women-empowerment/

In Pakistan, Madan and Phul (2016) noted that the Phulkari work of the Punjab was revived in Hazara (of undivided Punjab but now in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) on the initiative of an NGO. However, the Phulkaris produced on a commercial level are not of the same quality as the traditional craft. But the revival has helped poor rural families. [42] Kamdani in which thousands of thoughts produce a glittering effect and the design is known as Hazari Butti Suggested Read– Embroideries of India – Showcasing the Skills of Regional Artisans Origin of Phulkari Image – Wikimedia According to Flora Annie Steel (as published in the Journal of Asian Art, 1888): Phulkari was a home-craft, a leisure time activity, crafted with passion for personal use or to gift it to near and dear ones and was never meant for sale. During colonial rule, these became part of gift basket locally described as “ dali” that were presented to the British and other high officials on Christmas and also as a gesture of gratification. Phulkari was essentially a product of domestic work done by the women of the household. The fabric on which Phulkari embroidery was done was hand spun khaddar (a handloomed plain-weave cotton fabric). Cotton was grown throughout Punjab plains and after a series of simple processes it was spun into yarn by the women on the charkha (spinning wheel). After making the yarn it was dyed by the lalari (dyer) and woven by the jullaha (weaver).

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The motifs used in kasuti embroidery varied between mycological and architectural to flora and fauna. The motifs used in kasuti are inspired from- a b c d Alop ho riha Punjabi Visra by Harkesh Singh Kehal Unistar Publications PVT Ltd ISBN 81-7142-869-X and the tutorials to make 10 easy mirror embroidery designs Mirror embroidery design techniques Chikankari T. Richard Blurton, Sunand Prasad, Geeta Kapur, Walter Smith, Rosemary Crill, Ratan Parimoo, S. J. Vernoit, Daniel Ehnbom, M. C. Joshi and James H. Nye. India, Republic of. Grove Art Online [1]Over the years, the Indian and Punjab governments have been working towards promotion of Phulkari embroidery, by organizing special training programs, fairs, and exhibitions. [3] Since most of the women artisans creating Phulkari are in the unorganized sector or work through middlemen, they do not make much money compared to an actual selling price of their product. To overcome this, Punjab Small Industries and Export Corporation (PSIEC) [27] formed women self-help groups and cooperatives to sell directly and make more profits. [28] Their products retail at PHULKARI- Punjab Government Emporiums [29] in New Delhi, Chandigarh, Patiala, Kolktata, and Amritsar. The Patiala Handicraft Workshop Cooperative Industrial Society Ltd [30] (Society for Rural Women Empowerment) founded a Phulkari cluster in 1997. 880 Phulkari artisans are now part of the cluster and over 10,000 women have been trained in Phulkari embroidery. Close-up of tracing on cloth - a contemporary Phulkari embroidery technique by female artisan in Rajpura, Punjab (India), 2015 Haryana Handicrafts and handlooms have already marked its existence in the market. The is famous for many unique Haryana crafts and the most famous is Surajkund crafts fair which is held in February every year, which displays Indian handicrafts from all over India. This is a unique kind of bagh having the field divided in 52 squares. Each square has different geometrical motif. Chope Phulkari, 20th century. The Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Phulkari Collection. Image Credit: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Phulkari: an expressive medium of Art

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This exhibition, which examines the artistic, cultural, and political significance of phulkari, is long overdue and will certainly delight visitors who may be unfamiliar with this remarkable art form”. Kantha in Sanskrit means rags. It is a traditional artist Bengal which means Patched Cloth. There are several mythologies associated with the origin of this art form. It was said that in ancient times, the women used to pile up the layers of torn clothes and stitch them. Lord Buddha is also associated with the origin of this art because Lord Buddha and his disciples used thrown away rags to cover themselves. Kantha is a Sanskrit word meaning throat and Lord Shiva has been named Nilakanth meaning blue throat and it is also known as Throat Chakra.

Vari-da-bagh: this is given as a gift to the bride by her in-laws when she enters her new home. A distinctive feature is that it is always made on orange-reddish khaddar fabric and only a single golden or orange-colored pat is used for embroidery. The chief pattern of this phulkari is a group of three or four small concentric diamonds of growing size. National Crafts Museum: Away from Delhi's chaos, history in all its glory". The Indian Express. 9 December 2019 . Retrieved 31 January 2020. The two styles of chope and subhar are worn by brides. The chope is embroidered on both sides of the cloth. It was a little too insta poetry for me - a lot of space was wasted on bite size poems that could be better described as tweets or insta captions. I read it in the span of a 30 min tube ride…and I was actively trying to read it slowly lol Durries are rugs having spectacular geometric designs. Durries are usually made on blue colored cloth with white triangle designs and Panipat is the hub of making durries in Haryana.