Ari Embroidery

Aari work:

   Aari weaving is one of the many types of weaving, began in the Mughal period. Aari work is a kind of weaving work that is finished by extending the texture firmly over a wooden edge. A pen like needle, that looks like a stitch needle is utilized to do the inborn Aari work. Aari weaving is polished in different districts, for example, in Kashmir and Kutch (Gujarat).

    Aari work is a sort of weaving which is done on an extended texture and sewing the plan with a long needle(hooked) which has a snare eventually. The needle is named as Aari, from which the weaving work determines its name as Aari work.

Hand Ari work by Hook Needle

A pen like needle, that looks like a hook needle

    First the tracing of the design is made on tracing paper, Using a needle, holes are pierced all along the lines. Then transferred onto the fabric the help of  A mixture of kerosene and blue powder is made and rubbed with a cotton-bud on the tracing paper. It comes through the holes and is transferred to the fabric. Some craftsman spontaneously draws the pattern on the fabric directly by pencil or chalk. The craftsman's tool used for embroidery is caled aari, a hooked needle, from which the style gets its name. Then stretch the abric tightly over a frame called the adda,  frame (adda)can be made to fit any size of fabric.

    The adda consists of four square wooden rod 2 of 2"x2.5"x60" and 2 of them are smaller size of 2"x0.5"x36" this is called ADDA.  It follows the assembly and tightening principles of the ADDA, and gives the cloth a uniform tension. Some craftsman use a smaller metal frame, it also be used if the embroidery focus is in a small area. Aari embroidery is done by tightening the cloth to be embroidered upon the adda frame, the thread work on portions on the stretched cloth with an aari or hooked needle as a instrument or tools. The genuine weaving includes pushing the needle through the texture. From behind, string is driven into the snare.

    At the point when the needle is pulled up once more, it concocts a string circle. The following time, the needle goes through the string circle and thinks of another string circle through the past circle. A similar cycle is rehashed. The lines are exceptionally fine and little.