Hi everyone,
Iam back again after a small lull. The days are passing by so fast and my stitching has been reduced to almost zero. Yesterday - I managed to get my right hand index and middle fingers cut(barely escaped from getting chopped off completely) in a running mixer/blender.Don't ask me how. It just happened and Iam not even able to explain.
So, if no stitching,why am I writing this post?
The answer is ,to lead you to a bunch of videos on Indian embroidery!! :)
Couple of days back when Sarita J mailed me a link to a video about chikan work,I was curious. I went over and had a look - and then, just couldn't stop looking for some time . Starting from stitch 1- Janjira motif of chickankari , Mridula's school of embroidery has uploaded about 203 videos covering not only Chikan work,but other Indian embroidery methods like Phulkari, Kantha, Kutch, Kashmiri, Kasuti etc. Additionally there are plenty of freestyle embroidery stitch videos too. So, girls, if you want to see Indian embroidery in action go and have a look.
Mridula Nagarajan is well known across South India for her embroidery classes run through the Mridulas school of embroidery and fashion design for over 30 years. And it is not often that we get to see videos of Indian embroidery methods posted by the master herself. Here's the link to the complete list of video tutorials by Mridula's School. Thank you Sarita, for this great piece of information.
Love,luck and sunshine,
Deepa
still haven't really watched them,
ReplyDeletebut i wanted to thank you for publishing this great resource!
take care of your battered finger.
I hope your fingers soon heal, these things happen so quickly.
ReplyDeletewhat an adventorous day!!And where these monkeys come from???I am curious :D
ReplyDeleteand thanks for the tutorial link..great info
Ouch! I hope you can stitch again soon. Thanks for sharing those links.
ReplyDeleteThanks for pointing us to those great videos, Deepa! Hope you are able to get back into stitching real soon.
ReplyDeleteHi..I'm visiting your blog for the first time..you've got ome very interesting articles posted, I'll be definitely checking out those embroidery tutorial videos soon.
ReplyDeleteYour monkey story was so funny.. reminds me of the time when we were vacationing in Matheran and the gigantic leader of the pack of monkeys went into our room as soon as we stepped out of it,obvously to get hold of any of our foodstuff...all of us started started screaming, me and my siblings, my parents, my aunt even moreso since our meek uncle was stll in the room...we were astonished a few moments later to see the monkey rushing out with my uncle chasing it with a shopping bag. That has been the only glimpse of bravery we've ever seen in all these years...heh heh...Thanks for the links to the video tutes.
Ooo Deepa... hand sounds sore! Very inconvenient in indeed! Hope it heals very soon. Hugs.
ReplyDeleteOh, Deepa, thanks for the links! I will watch the videos over the week-end, I need some quiet time all for myself.
ReplyDeleteHope your fingers mend quickly, how frustrating not being able to emroider.
I am sorry you hurt your fingers and hope they mend quickly.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the great videos on Indian stitching. Just what I needed. I would like to try Kantha work.
sorry to hear abt your accident:( I hope it's less serious than you make it sound:)
ReplyDelete"please go away" might not have worked, there's a bit of a difference between that and "GET OUT":D
Thanks for the links, I'll check them out soon:)
Thank you so much for posting these links. A great source of inspiration.
ReplyDeletewhat?! A monkey? seriously, that is so funny!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for the Mridulas embroidery.It will really be very useful for anybody who is interested in embroidery.Nice that you shared it.
ReplyDeleteHi !
ReplyDeleteI couldn't watch the videos in utube. Any suggestions as to what to do?
Hi Shypetal,
ReplyDeleteI think those videos have been removed from public view. There's nothing I can do about it as they are not mine ,sorry :(
Regards,
Deepa