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Embroidery has been a part of many cultures in other countries like India. It is the art of decorating a cloth or fabric with the use of an embroidery needle, yarn or special types of threads. This hobby has been a part of our life for many decades now. It was believed that the embroidery has started in as early as 30,000 B.C during the Cro-Magnon times. Due to the eagerness of the scientist and archeologist to trace up the history of embroidery, they have found out fossilized remains of the clothes or fabric and boots that were manually stitched. They also have found some evidence of embroidered materials in a piece of silk fabric with a pearl and precious stones designs.
On the other hand, Dori embroidery is one of the types of Indian embroidery that uses a strong thread or cord. To enhance the beauty of the embroidered material, the craftsmen use different colors of thread and use either zardozi stitches or couching stitches. Oftentimes, Dori embroidery is being combined with other decorative accessories like the beads, pearls, sequins and gotta to make the design catchy and elegant.
Usually, the thread or cord that is being used in Dori embroidery has a metallic rich colored thread that makes the design attractive. The main purpose of using the metallic thread in Dori embroidery is to outline the border lines or the motif on the fabric so that the design will be emphasize. Any cloth or fabric that is being done with Dori embroidery will give a magical effect that catches the attention of the onlookers. Dori artwork embroidery uses different types of thread colors especially in making couching so that the designs will look radiantly. Some other craftsmen used gold or silver colored thread to create a mesmerizing effect on the embroidery designs.
Dori embroidery has been used in many Indian traditional and formal wears. Like for instance the elegant Lehenga style Bridal Gown in Fishtail, this dress is perfectly designed with a combination of a Dori embroidery, dubka, and mirror work and zari embroidery. The right combination of this artwork makes this bridal dress elegant and gorgeous. The gown comes along with a short style bridal lehenga blouse in full neck style with very nice designs of a floral motif art.
Nowadays, Dori embroidery is used by many professional designers to create a stunning look on the fabric. They created designs using Dori embroidery to make the clothes attractive. Since in this recent generations there are competition in the field of fashion, the designers try their very best to create a unique but catchy designs of dresses to cater needs of all fashionable women out there. In fact, we are so lucky today because all of the latest designs of embroidery are easily done because of the advancement of technology. The existence of the embroidery machines benefits us because whatever the type of embroidery you will choose to have either zari, Dori embroidery, chikankari or dubka work you can easily get the finest designs of this art because embroidery machines make these things possible today.
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