Sunday, October 19, 2008
Indian Textiles and Embroidery
The Northern region has a rich textile tradition, with each state being renowned for its own specialities. The entire Himalayan region is known for its tastefully and aesthetically created pashmina and tus shawls, as welll as woollen fabrics. These colorful and intricately woven and embroidered shawls captured a sizeable chunk of the domestic as well as foreign markets around the late 18th early19th centuries. The phulkaris of Punjab and Haryana may not have been as successful as the pashmina shawls, but the former are evocative of a unique emotional association between the mother and the child. these khaddar head coverings were made by a mother or grandmother soon after the birth of a child or grandchild. Replete with geometric patterns embroidered in colorful silken threads, these phulkaries were gifted to a daughter or darghter in law at the time of her marriage.
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