Timelessly elegant in design and colour, exquisitely embroidered shawls reflect the creativity and skill of artisans. Embroidered shawls come in all types of fabric and are treasured for years. The heritage design and fine quality of embroidered shawls maintain a trend of being handed over from generation to generation.

Style & Pattern:
The incredibly beautiful and unique embroidered shawls are available in various styles and patterns. These shawls are either hand embroidered or machine embroidered to give the desired finish. A wide variety of fabric like pure wool, cashmere, silk, pashmina, cotton or a mix of these fabrics is used for making exquisite embroidered shawls.

Types of Embroidery:
There are few different types of embroidery techniques used to create artistic and classic embroidered shawls. Some of them includes:

• Kantha Embroidery: Kantha embroidery is a fine needlework tradition of West Bengal. The word kantha refers to piled patch work. The embroidery is unique in the hand of every craft person as it highlights the personal symbols used to denote everyday objects. The shawls are designed entirely of tiny running stitch in different colors with elephants, chariots, flowers and fish forms in unique dimensions.
  
  
• Rabri: This type of embroidery is unique to the pastoral communities of Ahirs and Rabaris in Gujarat. Shawls are designed with very rich embroidery and mostly represent traditional motifs. Rabri motifs inlcude flowers, medallions, geometric stylized horse and rider, peacock and scorpions, worked in the chain stitch with round, petal shaped and triangular mirror pieces interspersed between them. To make the craft more attractive, a pattern is set off from the combination of coloured threads, mirrors and embroidery.
  
  
• Phulkari: Shawls with motifs embroidered in the distinctive style of Punjab and Haryana are called Phulkari. Shawls with embroidery covering the whole surface of the base cloth are called Bagh. Multi-colored shawls are made using the traditional phulkari or flower work embroidery. Traditional phulkari shawls were embroidered in vivdly coloured geometric patterns.
  
  
• Suzni: It is one of the widely popular embroidery work of Kashmir in India. The suzni is a very simple form of stitch, which shows uniform threads form both sides and is often used to decorate shawls. The stitch defines the selected motifs that represent the local cypress, the chinar leaf and lotus in delicate patterns on Kani shawls.