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Phulkari is an ART

Phulkari is an ART

The art is quite old and in olden days majority of women were expert
in this art in villages and was purely a domestic art. Punjabi women
were very creative in designs with adding various colors. Although in
morden days now not many women or girls take interest in learning this
art, but still admire to have ‘Phulkaris’ for special events.

The areas like Hazara and Chakwal were known to be famous of
Phulkaris’. The main characteristics of Phulkari embroidery are use of
darn stitch on the wrong side of coarse cotton cloth with coloured
silken thread. Punjabi women created innumerable alluring and
interesting designs and patterns by their skilful manipulation of the
darn stitch. The base khaddar cloth used in Western Punjab is finer
from those of Central Punjab. Black/blue are not preferred in Western
Punjab, whereas white is not used in East Punjab. In West Punjab, 2 or
3 pieces of cloth are first folded and joined together. In East
Punjab, they are joined together first and then embroidered.

Many women also stiched ornamnets as part of the design and even a
special thread made of gold was used along side silk threads.The
creative ability of women scaped wonderful and sometimes complex
patterns along side the colorful flowers.

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A robust joie de vivre! Speak of Punjab and the canvas instantly springs to life – hard working people who celebrate their festivals with equal zest. A canvas which is as colourful as the art of phulkari.

Phulkari

Phulkari is an art of decorating shawls, dupatas with embroidered floral motifs. The smaller the stitch, finer is the quality of the embroidery.The embroidery of phulkari and bagh is done in long and short darn stitch which are created into innumerable designs and patterns.The threads used were invariably of a silk yarn called pat. The silk threads in golden yellow, crimson, red, orange, green and pink are usually used for the embroidery.For the embroidery, only a single strand was used at a time, each part worked in one colour. Shading and variation were not done by using various colours of thread. Instead, the effect was obtained by the dexterous used of horizontal, vertical or diagonal stitches. This resulted in giving an illusion of more than one shade when light fell on it and when it was viewed from different angles.

Phulkari

Phulkari, an embroidery technique from the Punjab in India and Pakistan literally means flower working, which was at one time used as the word for embroidery, but in time the word “Phulkari” became restricted to embroidered shawls and head scarfs. Simple and sparsely embroidered odini (head scarfs) and shawls, made for everyday use, are calledPhulkaris, whereas garments that cover the entire body, made for special and  ceremonial occasions, are known as Baghs ("garden").

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