{"id":2165,"date":"2016-12-01T01:42:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T20:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mirraw.com\/blogs\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2018-01-14T15:14:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T09:44:57","slug":"history-zari-zardozi-embroidery-stitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mirraw.com\/blogs\/2016\/12\/01\/history-zari-zardozi-embroidery-stitches\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Zari  ( Zardozi Embroidery Stitches )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zari means Gold &amp; Dosi means Embroidery. This technique dates back to the moghul era. Where the emperor &amp; queens attires were stitched with gold threads. Thousands of painstaking hours would go into making one embroidered attire. Work as intricate as weaving a bird\u2019s feather with machine like precision. Talk about epitome of fashion in those days, wearing Zardosi meant you belonged to a particular class of people. (only few could afford)<\/p>\n<p>Once the Moghul era ended, this gold thread stitching work was replaced by other cheaper materials like cotton &amp; soon came polyester. Also with the advent of agriculture &amp; industrialization the technique itself became a rarity. Most of the Zari work done on sarees &amp; carpets these days is by machine. Though world over places like Iran, parts of India, Pakistan &amp; Bangladesh are seeing a sizeable workforce working on Zari products like Carpets &amp; Sarees. In India most of the Zari work is done in Midnapur, Jhansi, Bareilly &amp; Kutch.<\/p>\n<p>One carpet takes any where between a few months to even a lifetime (based on the size) similarly a saree weaving with authentic threads and hand knotted takes a few months. These days lehengas are being used especially during weddings with Zari work on them. The difference between a hand made &amp; machine made can be observed based on the work done. A machine made will have very precise stitch especially if you were to flip the cloth on the back of the design. A hand made Zari will have a certain weft to it.<\/p>\n<p>Zari is just not left to carpets &amp; sarees. It is also done on cushion covers &amp; curtains. These products are exported to the US, Europe &amp; the middle east.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mirraw.com\/blogs\/\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_1161-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"zardozi embroidery stitches\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mirraw.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_1161-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mirraw.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_1161-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mirraw.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_1161-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mirraw.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_1161-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mirraw.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_1161-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mirraw.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_1161-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zari means Gold &amp; Dosi means Embroidery. This technique dates back to the moghul era. Where the emperor &amp; queens attires were stitched with gold threads. Thousands of painstaking hours would go into making one embroidered attire. Work as intricate as weaving a bird\u2019s feather with machine like precision. 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