Engagement decorations-1- decorative cloth hanger – Madal

My nephew[ Bala] got engaged to [Charanya] a few weeks ago. I wanted to make handmade things to make the engagement more personalized for them. My nephew also worked with me on these projects.
The first project was to make cloth hanger.
In our community, writing and reading of the marriage invitation is done at an auspicious time at the engagement. This project was done with the idea of pasting the written invitation on to the hanger.
The cloth hanger [is called MADAL in our language] with the invitation-

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We did two pieces, one for the groom and another for the bride.
The cloth used was light weight velvet fabric in dark mejenta. The tassels-

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The fabric was folded and the tassels were stitched on to it.

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The border for the hanger-

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My nephew [the groom] cutting the double edged tape to the size of the border.

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First stage of attaching the border.

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The borders –

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The second part-
One feet long bamboo sticks and thick zari cord were used as hangers.

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The ends were sealed with molded craft m-seal and painted with yellow pearl paint.

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The painting is completed-

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Majenta stones were glued to the stick ends-

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The hanger is getting dry.

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The cloth hangers are ready for the next stage .

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The hanger looked different in sunlight.

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The two parts of the hanger are together with the help of double edged tape.

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This handmade paper was glued and sewn on to the hangers, the special sheet over which the invitation would be written can be attached to this paper during the engagement function.

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The picture of the cloth hanger with the invitation. This picture was taken by a photographer. The invitation was written in our language.

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Mustard chanderi tunic-3

I was busy these few days, and did not have time to write update on this tunic details.
The details of the bead work.
The yoke and the sleeve borders were worked with brown pearl beadss, the yoke-

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And white pearl beads were used for side panels, part of the completed panel-

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The completed yoke, panels, and sleeves , when placed over the tunic fabric.

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The tailor did a wonderful job of sewing this tunic. And the sewn tunic was , just the way I imagined and designed.

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The yoke-

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The sleeves and the panels-

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I wear a cream colour salwar[Indian pants] for this tunic. the chanderi tunic fabric  needed lining, which makes me look  stuffed, only this time, I don’t mind at all!

 

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This tunic was ideal for using pearls , beads and stones. The colour combination worked very well for these embellishments.
The borders are further embroidered with chain stitch and back stitch. Antique gold colour silk thread was used for this.

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The embroidery is completed on these borders. now for the stones, beads and pearls.
Stones were added inside the circles.

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And golden beads were worked around the circles.

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White and red chanderi tunic-3

After the yoke pattern was worked with threads, small antique golden beads and red zardosi tubes were stitched on to the yoke. A part of the yoke-

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The other part of the yoke after working the zardosi embroidery.

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The pictures are not very clear.
The completed yoke, placed on the tunic fabric looks like this-

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The sewn tunic with zardosi yoke.

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Close up of the tunic.

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I have worn this tunic with red salwar[Indian pants]. The block print pattern on this tunic is very rare. It impressed me a lot. it can worn be as saree, shirt, short top and other western dresses also. The fabric was transparent and required lining, for that matter. I find any white based fabric requires lining.
I looked for inspiration from traditional Indian patterns and drew this yoke pattern.

 

White and red chanderi tunic-2

The embroidery details of the yellow yoke on white chanderi tunic. After working with green colour threads, I started with red colour thread. This being the colour of the zardosi beads, the outlines were worked stem stitch and chain stitch in this colour. The central part of the design was worked in satin stitch and straight stitch. The picture is not very clear though,

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With the tunic fabric in white, the rest of the design was worked in white thread. The stems were done in white along with other small details.

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The zardosi details on my next post.

 

White and red chanderi tunic-1

While shopping for tunic fabrics, I found this white block printed chanderi fabric.

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It had small zari border.which is not seen here.. I had some zardosi tubes in red, which I wanted to use on this tunic. With white background, I cannot use white fabric for yoke, light green colour was very minimal on the tunic to be used for yoke, so the decision was to use golden yellow fabric for yoke.
This was a traditional Indian pattern, it is easier to incorporate zardosi on these type of patterns.
I started the work with gold colour silk thread. Satin stitches, straight stitches and chain stitch were done with this thread.

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The next colour silk thread was olive green, and the light green was done in cotton skein. Leaf stitch, stem stitch and buttonhole stitch were done with these threads.

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Cream yoke[2]-3

The last detail of this multi coloured yoke was done in light green thread. The centre, the other details of the original pattern were worked in chain stitches with this colour.

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With this the yoke is completed.
The yoke-

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A friend had a grey, cream and blue kalamkari fabric. the fabric looked dull to her, so she wanted a yoke done in cream fabric to brighten that kalamkari. She did not want any mirrors or embellishments. With these options, I drew the pattern and chose these colours. I gave this finished yoke to her, but haven’t seen, how it was used by her.
This pattern goes well with mirrors, if someone is interested can try this with mirrors, that was the reason , I had posted the pattern for this yoke.

 

Cream yoke[2]-1

This is a medium sized yoke in multi colours. The inspiration for this pattern was from Ethnic Indian design. Generally this design is worked with mirrorwork and a variety of other stitches. In this particular yoke , I did not use mirrors.
The pattern-

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Herringbone filling in dark blue-

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Double cross stitches and chain stitch outlines and more herringbone filling done in dark pink.

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More details of this yoke on my next post.

 

Brown and maroon tunic-1

I had posted details of a printed maroon tunic with mangalagiri border here.
This tunic was also sewn along with that, the printed fabric of that tunic is the yoke of this tunic.
Embellishing the yoke-
This is the yoke which was sewn on the tunic with zari border. Silk and metallic threads were used for embroidery.

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No pattern was drawn , the print itself was the pattern to be embroidered, it started with fly stitches for the stem part.

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More details of this embroidery on the next post.

 

Maroon printed tunic with zari border-1

This tunic fabric is a maroon or Indian red block printed hand loom cotton. I had a grey mangalagiri fabric with the same maroon zari border. This border was used for the sleeves and the yoke for this maroon tunic .The border and the fabric sewn together looked like this-

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This tunic with this border looked good, with the printed fabric, I felt embroidery will not look attractive enough, so decided to use antique gold beads around the zari yoke.

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The completed tunic on my next post.