Heer Bharat Embroidery

Heer Bharat Embroidery in Jaipuri includes dozens of embroidery styles that vary by region and clothing styles. Designs in Indian embroidery are formed on the basis of the texture and the design of the fabric and the stitch. The dot and the alternate dot, the circle, the square, the triangle, and permutations and combinations of these constitute the design.

Heer Bharat is embroidery where design is filled with thread work. This filling is done either by button-hole stitch or long and short (double satin) stitch. It is being done on hand woven and hand spun cotton and woolen garments. Motifs of geometrical shapes, animals, flora and fauna can also be seen.

Heer Bharat embroidery is spreading to length and breadth across the country and people are starting to apply their own innovative thoughts in the stitching work and design patters to make it look more vivid. In ancient days, this artwork is confined only to certain garments, but as time passed by, it is being worked on bridal and groom wears sherwanis and decorative household items.

This art has resemblance to the embroidery works done in the Kutch and Kathiawar. Thread work is done to create designs in the fabric. The threads are filled and stitched using button hole and satin double stitch method.

Selling these Heer Bharat embroideries and improving the economy of that region where this kind of embroidery works is predominant is a normal course. But, it is not done only for money, but also looked up on seriously as a traditional art imbibed in the heart of those artists. The women of the Jats and Banni community take up these kinds of garments worked in Heer Bharat embroidery along with them, when they get married.