The Ek Taar Work of Metal Wire
Ek taar work is the all traditional as well as the artistic work or embroidery done in the subcontinent area, where the local people have to work with their hands in order to make an artistic as well as a masterpiece of creation. Ek taar work is a local word of the Hindus as well as the Muslims, which means a single strand of thread of metal wire. This metal wire is especially thinned to make the perfect width which can pass through a needle in order to make an artistic piece of work on clothes, shoes and even on bags and furniture covering.
The Ek taar work is the traditional and the most sought for work in the subcontinent, which every bride and every married woman wants on her accessories. It encompasses the standard of every class of people but the amount and the intricacy of work depends on the amount of money to be paid, because the Ek taar work is expensive due to the hard work done by hand and due to the thread which is not available in long bunches but is available in many short strands. Thus, the Ek taar work takes double the time which all the other embroidery or gemstone work takes to make any piece of work beautiful and marvelous.
Initially, the Ek taar work was only done for the kings and the noblemen who could afford the strand of wire and who had people to do the hard job for them. The metal wire embroidery was done on their turbans, their clothes, their gloves and even on their shoes, which were called the Khussa. The common man never had the mind or even the money to buy anything which had the Ek taar work done on them because it was the style statement of every rich man, but never of the poor or even the middle class man.
Gradually as the Mughal era came to an end and the British took over the sub-continent, the traditional things slowly started to escape the minds of the people because the local people were only mere citizens of second class who couldn’t again afford to wear expensive and embroidered clothes or turbans of Ek taar work. But eventually as the sub-continent was once again free and given back to the local people, the Ek taar work came back into fashion and is now the one thread work which every designer as well as every customer wants.
Today the Ek taar work is also done by cotton threads but the work done is not any kind of work which is done in other styles of embroidery. In this work, every thread seems thick and embossed enough to be shown to the viewer. It gives a very artistic appearance to every piece of work and with the cotton thread lesser clothes are made and more table clothes as well as stoles and shawls are made. They are available in every color and shade and are also very reasonable in price.
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