As chikankari has become more popular, it's also become much harder to tell what's actually handmade and what's produced by ...

As she begins to embroider flowers inside a vine leaf border, Uzbek artisan Mukhabbat Kuchkarova pulls the naturally dyed green silk thread through the cotton sheet. “I go to another world when I sew, ...

I mainly use DMC embroidery floss. For DMC No. 5 and No. 8 and for linen thread, I embroider with a single strand.

Hand embroidery is a long-standing traditional craft in Vietnam and artisans use their needles to explore a variety of themes to turn embroidered pieces into one-of-a-kind artistic products. Hand ...

Phulkari Embroidery: Nowadays, embroidery done with the help of machines has become so precise that it is no longer easy to differentiate between real handmade and machine-made work. How to ...