Sunday, April 29, 2007

Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand Embroidery

Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand Embroidery

Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand Embroidery
Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand Embroidery
Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand Embroidery
Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand Embroidery
Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand Embroidery


Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand Embroidery
Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand Embroidery

Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand Embroidery
Aari work for blouse using beads and chamki.
Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand EmbroideryAari work for silk saree & blouses using stones ,chamki (sequence), small beads and type beads.

Aari work with chamki and tube beads.
Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand Embroidery
Simple aari work for salwars and Neck Designs
Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand EmbroideryNeck Designs for chudidaars aari work done on a net cloth


Aari Work Saree, Zardozi Fashion Work with Hand Embroidery
Hand Embroidery Work for neck Designs for Shirt Salwar

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Filling Stitches with Hand Embriodery Fashion

Filling Stitches with Hand Embriodery Fashion

Hand embroidery often involves covering small and larger areas with thread or threading technique. There are several basic stitches commonly used to accomplish this task. The most common filling stitches in general embroidery are probably satin, stitch and long and short stitch. However, it's nice to have a few alternatives when filling up embroidered spaces. Here are some of the more common basic filling stitches.

Fishbone Stitch:


Fishbone Stitch Here's a good stitch to start with, when it comes to filling smaller shapes such as leaves and flower petals. The advantage of fishbone stitch is that it really looks like a leaf when complete, and you don't have to do anything "extra" to add, for example, the spine down the middle of the leaf. If you want a perfectly smooth leaf, though, you would use satin stitch instead of fishbone. The trick to a good fishbone stitched leaf is to draw a line in the middle of the leaf shape to use as a guide. You want to keep your edges smooth, too.




How to do Stitching? Direction:



Begin at the tip of the shape, coming up at A. Make a longish straight stitch straight down, following the center line marked in the leaf. Come up at B, and then slant your stitch to cross over the base of the straight stitch, just to the other side of your center line. Come up at C, and go down just on the other side of the center line, crossing over the tip of the previous stitch you just made. Note that the stitches take turns crossing over each other at the center line. They do not enter the fabric "on the line" - rather, just to the other side of the line. In this manner, the stitches overlap each other, all the way down the shape, giving the shape that "woven" look, creating the "spine" down the middle. Keep your stitches close together - you want to cover the area solidly.


flat stich:


flat stichThis is a lot like the fishbone stitch, but instead of stitching over one center line, you draw two lines just off the center, and take your needle down on either one of them. The flat stitch is also known as the Croatian stitch or the Croatian flat stitch. Again, it solidly fills a shape, forming an overlap in your stitches so that a kind of spine runs down th emiddle of the shape. Once executed, it looks almost identical to the fishbone, except it doesn't come to a point. Flat stitch is a good way to fill in circular flower petals.





Direction:


Again, with this stitch, you're going to be working slightly slanted stitches. Come up at A, go down at B, up at C, cross over the stitch you made when you went down at B, and go down at D. Keep your stitches close together, creating a solid filling. Make certain your edges are kept smooth by following the outline carefully, and taking up very little fabric between stitches

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The Beginning of Fashion


Many cultures through history have followed fashion. Styles of clothing have changed as a result of contact with other societies and competition for status within a society. Yet not until the 14th and 15th centuries, during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, did styles begin to follow a regular pattern of change in Europe. The beginning of fashion dates to that time.

The beginning of fashion is associated with this growth of trade and business and the rise of the economic system known as capitalism.

Fashionable items of clothing came from all parts of Europe, and fashionable dress was fairly standard throughout western Europe. By the 16th century a fashionable man's attire consisted of a white linen shirt and a doublet (fitted jacket), and over it a looser jacket or short cape, which a man might hang from one shoulder. Hose (thick tights) attached to the doublet and covered the legs. Hose might fit snugly or be loose around the hips and stuffed with padding. Short padded breeches were known as trunk hose and took several shapes, depending on the padding used. Women’s dresses had tight bodices with a stiff panel, called a stomacher, that extended over the chest and abdomen. Sleeves and skirts were full—made with ample fabric so they puffed out). Both men and women wore white ruffs, which were stiff, pleated collars.

Fashion tends to follow power. During most of the 15th century, Venice and other Italian city-states held economic power in Europe, but the center of power shifted to Spain after navigator Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the Americas for Spain in 1492. During the 16th century the Spanish style increasingly dominated European fashion. Men at the Spanish royal court favored black clothing, with a large white ruff at the throat. The fashionable silhouette for both men and women became bulky and stiff. Men’s short breeches and doublets were padded. Skirts became wider and were supported by a farthingale (hooped petticoat), also known as a wheel or drum, which grew wider toward the bottom. Upper-class women adopted a boned corset, which flattened and narrowed the upper body.

Fashion also helped create an impressive royal image. Queen Elizabeth I of England, for example, used fashion to make a statement of political authority, to assert her power and legitimacy. Ornate garments encrusted with jewels, gold, and other decoration asserted her power and her right to rule, even though she was a woman.


Next will be: the fashion of 17 th century...



What is Fashion

Fashion, clothing that is in style at a particular time. The concept of fashion implies a process of style change, because fashions in dress, as well as in furniture and other objects, have taken very different forms at different times in history.

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