Zardozi: Glittering Gold Embroidery
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Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8170173191
Length
224p., Maps; 31cm.
Subjects
Zardozi the traditional art of court embroidery is the sheer magic of nimble fingers and imaginative designs, envisaged by the ensemble of lustrous metallic wire which was traditionally the silver wire coated / plated with gold, silk threads, beads and stones. The book attempts to trace the history of zardozi, its traditional manifestors, the zardoz, in the context of the survival of the production system the karkhana, the social system, the formal, non-formal ...
