HANDICRAFTS & Embroidery

Handicrafts appear with a leap of human productive activities. A handicraft, mostly exhibited as handmade, a wide variety of work where decorative items are made completely by human-labour using simple, non-automated tools like scissors, hooks, etc. It is a traditional section of craft making, the term arts and crafts is also applied.

Embroidery is the handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. Embroidery is most often recommended for caps, hats, coats, blankets, dress shirts, denim, stockings, and golf shirts. Embroidery is available with a wide variety of thread or yarn color.

A characteristic of embroidery is that the basic techniques or stitches of the earliest work—chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch—remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.

The fabrics and yarns used in traditional embroidery vary from place to place. Wool, linen, and silk have been in use for thousands of years for both fabric and yarn. Today, embroidery thread is manufactured in cotton, rayon, and novelty yarns as well as in traditional wool, linen, and silk. Ribbon embroidery uses narrow ribbon in silk or silk/organza blend ribbon, most commonly to create floral motifs.

Surface embroidery techniques such as chain stitch and couching or laid-work are the most economical of expensive yarns; couching is generally used for gold-work. Canvas work techniques, in which large amounts of yarn are buried on the back of the work, use more materials but provide a sturdier and more substantial finished textile.

In both canvas work and surface embroidery an embroidery hoop or frame can be used to stretch the material and ensure even stitching tension that prevents pattern distortion. Modern canvas work tends to follow very symmetrical counted stitching patterns with designs developing from repetition of one or only a few similar stitches in a variety of thread hues. Many forms of surface embroidery, by contrast, are distinguished by a wide range of different stitching patterns used in a single piece of work.

Numerous hand embroidery products:

Badges,

Crests,

Family crests,

Emblems,

Pocket/cap badges,

Coat-of-arms,

Heraldry,

Epaulettes,

Wings,

Banners,

Insignias,

Ranks,

Motifs,

Logos

Flags,

Century flags

Ceremonial flags,

Uniform accessories,

Masonic regalia.

Religious regalia,

Belts,

Pennants,

Peaks,

Sashes,

Clan-badges

Wall hangings,

Carpets,

Cushions

Alphabets,

Numeric,

Hand Embroidery on/ for ethnic shoes/ Punjabi jutti

Hand Embroidery on/ for dresses ( Indian styled dresses like lehenga)

Etc.

For all kinds of purposes, categories and departments including the army, navy, air force, marines, police, fire department, colleges, schools, scouts, universities, hospitals, clubs, associations, individuals too, etc.

All these hand embroidery patches can be applied on multiple products like caps, dresses, sword covers, garments, uniforms, wallets, frames, foot wears, wall hangings, carpets, rugs, flags, cushions, key chains, bags, kids wear and on any product you think of.

Jute products:

Jute wall hangings/ Floor décor,

Pots hangings/ Plant hanger,

Light shades/ Lamp shades,

Jute bags,

Jute footwear,

Jute jewelleries

Leather Whips/ hunters

Handicrafts and Hand Embroidery items/ patches can be applied to many products like: on key chains, foot wear( Punjabi Jutti or jhutti is a form of footwear mostly comes from North Indian regions. They have extensive embroidery on them. Moreover, Rajput's of the northwest used to wear juttis also known as ethnic shoes.) and dresses( Lehenga, lehnga is a type of an ankle-length skirt from India. Different styles and patterns of embroidery, mostly traditional, are used to decorate the lehenga. Gota-patti embroidery is one of the types used for festivals and weddings), etc.