Lucknow, in Uttar Pradesh, was and still is the centre of Chikan embroidery, renowned for its gossamer delicacy and timeless grace, a skill more than 200 years old – exploited, commercialised but not dead; in fact wonderfully alive and struggling to regain some of its former beauty and elegance. Chikan embroidery is done on fine […]
Chikan Embroidery of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
