Aari Embroidery - Exploring motif designs - 2

Aari Embroidery - Exploring motif designs - 2

Todays design is one i made for a customer, please excuse for the low resolution of the pics. I will post all the scanned copies of the designs in the gallery soon. So bear with me please. Now lets explore the design here, 

There are five stitched and 3 embellishment used here. The stitches are to be done on the traditional arhi frame. One more thing to be noted is the color combination. The theories of the color gives you better designed piece. In my classes i teach the basics of fashion components, color theories, basics layout creation of designing blouses, repeat cretion with rules of the repeat and twelve rules of embellishment !!

The main theory in blouse designing is the placement of the repeat of the design !

On your enquiries to join classes, please mail me at vanith.d08@gmail.com, or you can use the comment section of any post, please use the latest post :) 

I want to handle enrollment in 25 per class, so please mail me so i can put you on waiting list. The limit is so small, as i want to ensure that everyone has learnt it right easily.

Aari embroidery - Exploring motif designs

Aari embroidery - Exploring motif designs , des. 1

There are various facts and supplies that make a an artifact or a art famous and desirable! Like how the various application of design elements in the famous embroidery, aari embroidery. In this segment that i have started with today, Aari embroidery - Exploring motif designs, i am going to explore the trendiest aari embroidery patterns. Lets explore the design and its components.

 @ DESIGN, there are about 6 type of stitches and 3 type of embellishment used here.

The aari embroidery is very mesmerising and hypnotises the user with its beauty. And this one is a little piece, which will make one certainly proud when done by yourself. You are allowed to share your repeats of the design through mail. Best repeat will be awarded with surprises.

AARI EMBROIDERY - SAREE BORDER DESIGN

This design you see here, is a very simple yet heavy one. How it is a heavy one? It is heavy one because it is made of thick strands of thread. The design can only be done on the use of kattil frame - the traditional aari embroidery frame. 

I will keep posting the simple and handy designs that is on going this season. Since iam handling two blogs a t time, i think there is a change in schedule of the posting. But soon i will rectify this. We are getting more viewers. Iam very happy with that as i love to interact with people. Lonely life is helley. And i will be using some new words, that is easily understandable without any dictionary.

As i said my other blog, puzzlesofthread.blogspot.com, i am writing on multi topics on fashion, sewing, patterns, draping and needle work too. So interested peoples can follow me up in my puzzle journey too.

The link is www.puzzlesofthread.blogspot.com.

What is Arhi Embroidery?

Arhi embroidery, is one of the type of Indian embroidery. the similar form of embroidery techniques is applied in other regions too. It is called as tambour embroidery. The method of working is similar while the difference lies only with the tools used. In tambour embroidery they use what they call as Tambour hook whereas in Arhi embroidery it is the embroidery needle, special type of needle that resembles in shape and components as crochet hook.

The arhi emboidery is a method applied in haute couture making, as the good seamless and prickless finish is the key identity of the Haute Couture garments. Until now the Arhi embroidery and the understanding on the arhi embroidery techniques, applications and procedures and some tools are kept significantly secret. As the method is time consuming and eye straining as the work is so intricate, it makes the seeker tired very tired at first step. 

This beautiful arhi embroidery has gained popularity and applications much emphasized in the bridal wear nowadays. The most popularly called bridal blouses or the wedding blouse is nothing if not the Arhi embroidery is done on it. 

The brides take pride in wearing the heavily embellished blouse. however it has become standard in Arhi embroidery designing to have taken a commercial path of designing. Yes, the more hit it has got, lead it to the commercial hands thereby minimising the newer designs and exploration is completely stopped. However, as there are fads in fashion so be the fabs !

Blouse design 1

Dear Followers,

First pictures of aari embroidered blouse, that i had made for my customer. This blouse they preferred not so heavy work, but they wanted it elegant. I was in a hurry, so i clicked some few pics, before shipping them. There is little too shiny reflection on the blouse, as the material is of pure silk.

Another close up of the blouse back neck alone!

I was not planning to post this, because as i said in my last post, i tried to give you the ARHI SAMPLER - yes A- R-H-I is the right spelling of so called as Aari embroidery. Guess from this day on, it will be called by the right name with right spell..ARHI !

Will be delighted if you follow the same spell and pass that to craftsters and needle work lovers too..

Lets grow THE ART OF NEEDLE WORK!

Stitches in Aari embroidery

As i was going through some of my seminar contents, the seminar i presided at Womens polytehnic, Coimbatore, i guessed why not to start with names of the Aari stitches, YES,..

Like any other needlework, there are variety of stitches in Aari embrodiery too, The stitches can be of three types, outliners, fillers and embellished ones.

The stitches that are in outliners are the Chain, Tambour, T chain, Layers.

The stitches that are in the fillers are herringbone, mixed, long and short, and doria.

Among some of the embellished are sitara, katdhana, zardhosi, jalakdoshi, nakshi and many more..

Hope this very first listing of the aari stitches will awaken your spirits! 

I will post the summary of pictures in next post,

Luv all:0)

Sorry guys! Am back !

When i started this blog, all i had in mind was a hobby ! But long after as i return, to see awesome views to this topic and some golden members, i am actually overwhelmed by happiness, guilt, fear. Happiness to see views and followers, ofcourse the followers are the boom to one who speaks or writes. Otherwise it would not be nice,  even a guy who speaks few normal philosophy, though that is someone else's, he feels inspired to speak on and on....I know a friend who would kill the speaker at times, at the beginning it would be nice to hear him...but as the time passes, he would keep boasting as he will lack of content ! Fun though !

Guilt is that i was not serving what you expected, i think it is not good to start an introduction with sorry, but still for your love here, i can say sorry.

Fear is silly to think how many of the followers have changed their ids...:(

Ok, the reason that i was not on is that CRPS complex regional pain syndrome on my left arms, very unfortune for me to think, because it was when i completed my first designing project to LONDON, a dream place for every Fashion designer to be,,,So many of you may not know, that iam a Fashion Designer, and an Image consultant.

My field of interest is in and out, under and above, between and contour, of fashion. 

Colors, threads, dyes, patterns, embellishment techniques, couture making, draping, computer aided fashion designing and textiles are my field of interests. 

So please feel free to enquire or in comment on any of the help you may need,..

With this start, i will make two post per week, wakey :)- Mondays, and go hippy- Fridays...