What is Badla thread?
Flat Metallic Thread, also known as Badla in India, is a thin and flat strip which brilliantly reflects light making the thread sparkle. Give life to your embroidery designs by adding this alluring thread in your embroidery. These beautiful threads can be used for both machine and hand embroidery.
How is badla work done?
Badla is the primary component of the famous zardozi needlework. In Badla work, slabs of metal are melted and pierced through steel sheets. They are then drawn into wires and beaten into a fine shape. The unadorned wire is called badla.
What is badla Zari?
These metallic threads are called Badla zari. Badla zari is basically wires onto which a normal cotton or silk thread is spun.
What is Zari thread?
MAKING OF ZARI Zari is produced by twisting flattened metallic strip made from gold, silver or metallic polyester yarn. These flattened silver or gold threads are wound on the base yarn that is usually made up of silk. The lustre of these threads is further increased by passing it through a brightener.
What is Kaamdani?
Kamdani. In Kamdani, the wire attached to a small length of thread is pulled through the fabric with a needle, beautifully working into motifs. This is also referred to as ‘fancy kaam’. Kamdani is fast becoming a rarity and most of the craftsmen are elderly men.
What is soft silk?
Soft silk sarees refer to sarees manufactured with fine silk fiber and less zari to attain the soft texture. On the other hand, pure silk sarees refer to sarees made with pure silk that has not mixed with other material.
What is Karchobi embroidery?
Karchobi embroidery is hand stitched and is fashioned with a needle that resembles a very small crochet hook which is used to run up and down through the cloth while the cloth is pulled tightly over a large wooden frame called Adda. With one hand the craftsman holds the retaining thread below the fabric.
What is Mukaish embroidery?
Mukaish or Muqaish or Mukesh or Mokesh work is a form of embellishment work in which strips of metallic wire are inserted into the fabric and then twisted to create metallic embroidery. This type of embroidery involves twisting thin metallic threads to create patterns all over the fabric.
Is Kanchipuram silk soft?
Mysore silk refers to a silk saree manufactured in Karnataka characterized by gold zari and a mixture of the softest silk material. On the other hand, Kanchipuram silk refers to silk sarees woven from pure mulberry silk thread in India. Both are however handicraft sarees and worn on special occasions.