Beige mangalagiri chikan tunic

This tunic was worked in 2013. The fabric is mangalagiri cotton. We call this colour as sandalwood colour. This fabric was fairly thin for it to be used for chikan work embroidery.
Though generally,  the chikan work embroidery being shadow work, the closed herringbone stitches are worked on the wrong side of the fabric. There are many exceptions to this.
I wanted to work closed herringbone stitches on both sides of the fabric.
The tunic.

The tailor had marked the sleeves and the front of the tunic. The yoke pattern

The yoke and the sleeve embroidery patterns were traced on to the fabric.

The threads used were-

Starting with darkest colour, the closed herringbone stitches were worked.

The next colour was also worked in the same manner.

The third colour which was very light compared to the other two was worked on the right side of the fabric. This time it was fish bone stitch.

Cream colour thread was used for outlines and french knots.

The sleeves were worked in the same manner.

The detail of the tunic.

Early 2013, my computer had some problem, and I lost most of the images of the details of the embroidery projects worked after june 2012. This kept me discouraged for quite some time. So there is a backlog of project details from 2013. I am hoping to post these whenever time permits.

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