Embroidered Cushion Cover

Description

About the Craft :: Lambani embroidery uses a total of fourteen types of stitches, mostly following geometric patterns like squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, diagonal and parallel lines. When many lines of different stitches and threads are arrayed together, the fabric becomes a festive array of colours and designs on its surface! Additionally, beads, small cowrie shells and even low denomination coins are held together in a garland of stitches that embellish the edges of a piece.
About the Artist: Sandur Kushala Kala Kendra was set up in 1984 to revive the traditional crafts of the area and improve the quality of life of craftswomen by encouraging and developing their skills and marketing the products thus ensuring regular income to its artisans. SKKK has evolved over the years and gained recognition for the lambani craft, both nationally and internationally. Today, there are 500 craftswomen benefiting from it. It has helped twenty self-help groups to become active. And local craftspeople are benefiting from, and growing with, the organisation. The designs created in the lambani hand embroidery technique by these artisans are stitched onto sarees, stoles, dupattas, bags and pouches, apparel and more.