Phulkari

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Phulkari (Gurmukhi: ਫੁਲਕਾਰੀ; Shahmukhi: پھلکاری, meaning "art of flowers") is the folk embroidery of the Punjab region and Gulkari of Sindh in South Asia. It is an artwork traditionally created by women. Although phulkari means 'floral work', the designs include not only flowers but also cover motifs and geometrical shapes. The main characteristics of phulkari embroidery are use of darn stitch on the wrong side of coarse cotton cloth with coloured silken thread. Traditional phulkaris are large items of cloth and in the broad sense include chope, tilpatr, neelak, and bagh. In the narrow sense, a phulkari is specifically a shawl sparingly embroidered with flowers, where the base cloth is still visible, while an intricately embroidered flower pattern that covers the entire garment is a bagh ('garden'). The craft of phulkari has undergone changes over the centuries. According to Pal (1960), the traditional method of embroidering a phulkari and its widespread use in Punjab, India, declined by...

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