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About Heritage of Hand Embroidery and Hand Crafted Designs

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Rich Heritage of Hand Embroidery and Hand Crafted Designs   Hand embroidery is an expression of sheer beauty, aesthetics and an interpretation of nature's finest...in color, shapes, form and texture. A painting on the canvas of fabric using a needle as a brush. The patient rendering, the concentration, the devotion of the artisan and their love for it which does not allow them to flicker their eyes else they miss a stitch.  I have often watched our men at work. They work on a wooden frame attaching the fabric to it with a yarn on a thin cotton rope entwined to the frame. They pull and tighten the fabric such that the stitches don't cause any wrinkle with a careful hand so they don't alter the grain of the fabric to achieve a smooth uncrushed finish. The tedious preparation on which the entire outcome depends. Following that a patient, steady hand at work.   The fine picking of the various material in small proportion and memorizing its repeats. The never to stop hand moveme