Re: Help with Embroidery Terminology with Pictures
As far as I know, zari and zardozi are fairly generic terms referring to gold thread embroidery. There is an endless variety of specific technical terms referring to various different styles of zari and zardozi work…dabka, aari, nakshi, etc. Dabka refers to embroidery done with tightly coiled golden wire…it’s very commonly used in Pakistani clothes. Kora work is a plain gold colored stitch. Aari work is a kind of flat chain stitch that’s done with a special hooked needle (a lot of traditional Kashmiri embroidery is aari work)…it can be done in metallic or colored thread. Nakshi work is done with a special kind of very shiny thread. Ganga Jamuni work just refers to the use of designs that incorporate both silver and gold colored embroidery. Kundan is the use of “gems” (usually plastic or glass) in the embroidery…if you use glass, it becomes “cut glass” work, if you use swarovski crystal, it becomes “swarovski work”…
The use of “gems” makes this kundan work. The coiled wires (they look like springs) on the edges of the central blue stone are dabka work. If you look closely at the “jaals” theyre made of a delicate chainstitch…that’s aari work.
The super shiny threads in this are nakshi work.