A hereditary embroidery tradition, phulkari was historically practised by women of the Punjab region in present-day India and Pakistan. It is a form of counted-thread embroidery recognised by its neat ...

As every body is unique, achieving a perfect dynamic fit of garments has to date relied on artisanal tailoring that cannot scale. Machine embroidery can place load-bearing thread in arbitrary patterns ...

In this edition of Know Your Handloom, we explore Kutch embroidery and learn about its diversity. Kurtas, shawls and bags with Kutch embroidery being sold at Dastkar's Nature Bazaar What is Kutch ...

Embroidery is a common practice for household textiles by women artisans in Afghanistan. Among the various forms of embroidery, khamak is one of the most distinguished and intricate ones. Khamak is a ...

As she begins to embroider flowers inside a vine leaf border, Uzbek artisan Mukhabbat Kuchkarova pulls the naturally dyed green silk thread through the cotton sheet. “I go to another world when I sew, ...

Growing up as a Palestinian in the diaspora, Zain Masri would spend summers visiting her grandmother in Jordan. One summer, Masri’s grandmother, who is a skilled seamstress with her own business, ...