The choice of traditional attire at festivals

The nine days of Navratri is an exception when even the modern young ladies of metros like Mumbai, Vadodara, Ahmedabad prefer to become rural Gujarat.

Girls wearing jeans, mini skirts, tights, blouses etc. wear chaniacholi and other traditional outfits. What a picturesque combination of the country's culture is formed in her attire. A long-sleeved umbrella skirt with a slightly higher V-neck long sleeves. In which the left side has to tie the rope. What a beautiful skirt the scene of the castle and palace creates, representing the lifestyle of the legendary men of history.

Peacock feather-like print on the lower part of the white avargandi chania and attractive golden work with long golden pearls on a wide belt in the shape of a crown on the upper abdomen. Long peacock feathers similar to chania on avargandi cloth, embroidered with golden pearls on the neck in a blouse of swallowed color on chania, even if you are not wearing jewelry around your neck, do not let the loss go away! After embroidering pearls that cover the neck, jewelry is needed! Corset neck in white silk corset, and pinched panel on chest. The edges of the neckline at the lower part of the neck are also embroidered on the chenia. The light green belt panel in the shape of the neckline and the print on the lower part of the neckline instead of the print is very decorative.

The lightly colored tusser sari is filled with brown painting and fine embroidery on the border while the painting done in a full sleeveless blouse matches the sari nicely. The matching of brown tax with light white color gives the whole sari a different getup. At one time only true zari was used and Surat was its major manufacturing center. Artificial has been issued today. And silk thread with lace is used in shawls, kaftans, kurtas etc.

In Uttar Pradesh, embroidery is called Tilla as it creates a brocade-like effect through the shiny thread. It also has Tiki, Sequence, Knitting Semi Precious Stones.

Embroidery is done in both Bihar and Kashmir, but the design is different. Flowers and trees are more common in most Kashmiri embroidery. Satin stitches are used in Persian style embroidery.

Even in Karnataka and Maharashtra, the embroidery known as wrestling is done in different ways. In Karnataka, bright red, orange, purple, green and orange strings are used to draw the figures of Tulsi Kyaara, chariots and animals of mythical significance. In Maharashtra, embroidery with animal and bird designs is done inside the frame or triangle.

The kantha-work in Bengal uses useless, overgrown pieces of cloth. Taking plain texture and plain stitches on it, such pieces of CV are erected in different designs. In the old days only women used to do Katha work and now its value is in the thousands.

Bharat means 'Mukish', which is also known as Badla work in simple language. Initially Silver Badla was sprinkled. Now Mukesh work is done by weaving silver wire in the design of the fabric itself. Gujarat's Kutchi Bharat, Abhala Varkato is known all over the world. Thousands of such embroideries are made there. Each generation keeps changing in its own way. How many types of stitches have you learned? And what kind of embroidered clothes are worn?