Phulkari

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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. Phulkari workers get peanuts". The Hindu. 3 August 2008. Archived from the original on 21 March 2009 . Retrieved 23 April 2013. GI status for Phulkari". The Times of India. 19 January 2011. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013 . Retrieved 23 April 2013. According to Blurton (2003), "angular satin-stitch baghs (shawls) and phulkaris (shawls similar to baghs, but less heavily embroidered)" up to 20 pieces would form part of a brides dowry. The items would be gifted by the bride's father, uncles and mother-in-law. Blurton further states that it took many years for the baghs and phulkaris to be embroidered. Traditionally women would begin to embroider the bhagh when their grandsons were born to be give to their future brides. [6]

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This type of embroidery work requires more patience and artisan skill enhancements needed. Present students are undergoing the fashion design subject in their degree level program, should be studied surface ornamentation is one of their subject and phulkari embroidery is also to be studied. Most of the phulkari embroidery designs are very much attracted by the international buyers and so the creativity of new designs are being made by the fashion design students of the present generation to earn sufficient monetary benefit. Punjab Handloom Emporium". www.punjabhandloomemporium.in. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017 . Retrieved 31 January 2020.Kasuti embroidery inspired from articles of daily use like rudraksha, flower pot, anklets, bells, chess square, cradle. This is a unique kind of bagh having the field divided in 52 squares. Each square has different geometrical motif. Kannadasan, Akhila (25 November 2014). "The bloom of tradition". The Hindu . Retrieved 30 August 2019. The phulkaris have been given different names according to the designs embroidered, colors of the base fabric, threads used, and its usage. The various types of phulkaris are: Someone I really love lent me this collection, so I didn’t know anything about it going in. I can safely say that I love how personal this is to me and my culture. Not very common in texts published in English, I appreciate that. Unfortunately, it just didn’t hit the way I wanted it to :(

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Chope Phulkari, 20th century. The Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Phulkari Collection. Image Credit: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Phulkari: an expressive medium of Art Service, Tribune News. "The past and present of Phulkari". Tribuneindia News Service . Retrieved 1 February 2020. Women would gather to embroider Phulkaris. Traditional folk songs would be sung by the group. Pal also gives one instance of a woman putting one grain of wheat to one side for every stitch she made. When the Phulkari was complete, the lady donated the grains away. Sometimes, different styles can be seen on one Phulkari. This is because each girl would use her own imagination to stitch a design, perhaps to remind the girl when she gets married of her friends who helped stitch the Phulkari. [4] Thind (2005) mentions another variety: the bawan bagh where more than one bagh style is used on one cloth. Many of the varieties are part of museum exhibitions and private collections. Thind makes reference to the contributions made by Mohinder Singh Randhawa in promoting the preservation of Phulkari art. He also mentions private collections where he has seen various motifs including the Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) embroidered in a Phulkari. [19]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). Soft and untwisted floss silk yarn, known as pat, is used. Earlier, strands were imported from China and were dyed by a dyer, that is, lalari using vegetable dyes. Sometimes, cotton and woolen threads were used. 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. Phulkari utilized khaddar/khadi as the base fabric. This base fabric was available in three varieties, such as khaddar, which was loosely spun and coarsely woven; chaunsa khaddar, a comparatively better variety; and halwan, a light weight and finely woven khadi fabric. The average size of the phulkari and bagh is about 230 x 138 cm. In its present form, Phulkari embroidery has been popular since the 15th century. [14] Pal (1960) believes that no matter its origin, Phulkari work is distinctive and uniquely Punjabi. [4] Fabrics [ edit ] Photograph of a Patiala Punjabi woman in Phulkari, ca.1900