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Space (Digital Fabric printing)
The world of Textiles printing is rapidly changing customer is demanding a greater variety of colour and designs. Digital fabric printing have latest innovative and creative designs like concepts of shadow, shimmering, vibration, reflection, moiré optical, translucent, netting, layering, etc.The main benefit of Digital fabric printing is in the process colour application with its latest printer, Software Application, Photographic and Tonal graphic shaped million of colours with Photoshop and can be printed on fabric according to colour combination requirement.
Chikankari Embroidery of Lucknow
The Delicate art of embroidery traditionally practiced in the Lucknow And it is environs are known as “CHIKANKARI” The name “CHIKAN” seems to have been derived from the Persian word it means a kind of cloth wrought the needle-work has a very Light, gossamer-like quality. This makes it very suitable seemingly hot climate of the northern plain region. Chikankari showing the style of nawab and culture mostly the work of Chicken is done on cotton and malmal.
Phanda Stitch In Chikankari Embroidery
Embroidery makes use to several different techniques to create different kinds of stitches. The major type of Chikan work done today are Taipchi, Bakhia, Phanda, murri, jail, Pechni, Ghaspatti, Chaana pati etc. Phanda is kind of embossed stitch. It resembles millet and gives a raised effect as it falls under that knotted style at times the stitches are repeated at the same spot several times to create a pearl-like effect. This is known as Phanda.
Buttonhole of Chikankari
Lucknow is famous for the work of Chicken work also called white work the most popular embroidery works in India. Chikan work consists of 36 stitches thus there is lot of variety in it. Buttonhole is very useful stitch. It is also used for decorative purposes it is used in many things as Patch work, Cut work, Mirror work, in many scalloped edges, Buttonhole wheel etc.
Back Stitch Of Lucknow
Back stitch and its variants stem stitch, outline stitch, and split stitch are a class of embroidery are sewing stitches in which individual stitch are made backward to the gernel direction of sewing. These slithery from lines and are most often used to outline shapes or to add fine detail to an embroidered picture. This is the strongest and most common stitch in hand sewing. Back stitch used like an outline stitch.