Afghani EmBroidery

Afghani Embroidery:

Afghanistan has its own culture with different people living in different areas of the country with different ethnicity, groups, and communities. All have own identity which separates them, but all have also got similarities. Afghanistan is famous for its design, clothes, and colors in all over the world.





                      

                 

                        

Both women and males work day and night to decorate all kinds of materials, just like different designs, clothes and many more. These all are due to the efforts of people with passion. And even some ofthe people depend upon these skills to earn all kind of money. In general, the production of embroidery is carried out by girls and women at home. By the end of the twentieth century, there also was a significant number of men carrying out embroidery, but this was usually machine embroidery produced in tailor’s workshops. but this was usually machine embroidery produced in tailor’s workshops. Different types of silk, cotton and wool yarns are used for embroidery on whatever fabrics are available. Metallic threads, spangles, sequins, mirrors (shisha) and metallic braids are often incorporated into the designs. In addition, beads and mirrors are used for settled Pashtun women’s dresses, while beads, coins and shells are often found on the dresses worn by nomadic Pashtun women. Some regions (in and around the town of Kandahar) are famous for passementerie, using gold and silver colored braids.

One of the most widespread uses of embroidery is for the small skullcaps worn by men, women and children. Each group has its own style of cap and form of decoration, with many variations, designs, and colors that can be related to different villages, gender, and so forth. Embroidery is used to decorate a wide range of objects, including household items (such as covers, curtains, cushions, table cloths, mats, towels, and prayer mats), animal trappings (notably the decorative blankets for horses), as well as for the clothing of men, women, and children. In general, women’s clothing tends to be the most elaborately and colorfully embroidered, but some of the most famous.

Afghan Embroidery is the most famous in all of Asia and also in the world. People buy many things and come to visit. They also send the material to foreign countries for better price gain.