online traditional handcrafted embroidery sarees by unnatisilks

Hand crafted embroidery is a fine and delicate art practiced in different traditional pockets of India. Embroidery or decorative needlework is usually done on sarees, often of a picture or pattern, to heighten the appeal. Handcrafted embroidery is an exclusive and treasured art since it is painstaking, time consuming, and a lot of care and dedication is put in by ethnic practitioners into the work, resulting in flawless creations of exquisite beauty. 

Zardozi, Chikan,Kantha, Bagh, Kasuti, to name a few, are some of the more popular forms of handcrafted embroidery used to adorn sarees. Zardozi is metal embroidery done on fabrics using gold or silver colour coated copper wire along with a silk thread. Popular since Mughal times, zari thread is employed for zardozi. Real Zari has thread made from gold or silver. Imitation zari uses gold or silver coated copper wire. 

Today mostly zari is made from metallic polyester film where a polyester core is covered by gold or silver coloured metallic yarn. Chikankari or chikan work is intricate embroidery on fabrics, an art form since the Mughal period, where the design or pattern print is put on fabrics in fine and detailed embroidery. Lucknavi chikankari is the most unique and famous of chikan work from among that of the several places in India where this art form is practised. 

Kantha Work, is essentially embroidery work done on sarees, with a running stitch on them in the form of motifs. These motifs could be animals, birds, flowers, simple geometrical shapes and scenes from everyday life. It gives the saree a wrinkled and wavy look and transforms a plain saree into an extraordinary creation. Though the running stitch is mostly used for its ease, other forms of stitch such as darning stitch, satin stitch and loop stitch are also used.

Based on the use of the fabric, Kantha is divided into seven different types. Lep kantha and Sujani kantha are the popular types. Bagh is a special kind of embroidery practised by women in Punjab. Heavy and exquisite embroidery on sarees especially the lehenga type, where the base fabric is hardly visible, it is mostly done for special sarees for occasions like festivals and weddings. Kasuti is a traditional form of embroidery practiced in Karnataka, India.

 Kasuti work is very intricate and sometimes involves putting a large number of stitches by hand on traditional silk sarees like Ilkal and Kanjeevaram. Kasuti work involves embroidering intricate patterns like chariot, lamps and conch shells on the fabrics. Locally available materials are used for Kasuti.

Unnati displays a fine range of handcrafted embroidery sarees in tussar silks. There are sarees in light and vibrant colours, some with dark hues. You have the exotic Dabu Prints with a lot of kundan work and zardosi with floral bootis. You have Dabaka work and appliqué work borders. You have brilliant designer prints and exclusive floral patch borders with beads, There are other adornments of Kantha work, Badla and other fine specimens of traditional Indian embroidery on different varieties of sari.

Unnati silks, largest ethnic online Indian shop offers exquisite designer Handcrafted sarees with matching blouse for sale.

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You can buy online handcrafted embroidery sarees at Unnati silks and products will be dispatched within 24 working hours of placing the order. We have free shipping and Cash on Delivery (COD) facility for Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Bhopal, Indore, Lucknow, Jaipur, Patna, Bhubaneshwar, Dispur, Itanagar, Kohima, Chandigarh , Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jullundur, Ernakulam and many other Indian cities and towns. We also do Worldwide fast shipping or express shipping to countries like UK, Canada, USA, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Seychelles, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Myanmar, Mauritius, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia and many more.