
Deepa Balagopal has posted another excellent tutorial for an Indian embroidery stitch. This time, she walks us through chemanthy work – a complex spiraling stitch. Check out the instructions and then take a stab at this lovely technique.
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Deepa Balagopal has posted another excellent tutorial for an Indian embroidery stitch. This time, she walks us through chemanthy work – a complex spiraling stitch. Check out the instructions and then take a stab at this lovely technique.

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I saw your website, its so nice and ur chemanthy tutorial is just great .Pls. tell me what thread u had used for that chemanthy work.And have u got any tutorial for aari work? Thanks in advance and sorry for troubling.Take care,bye.
hi deepa,
Ur work is fantastic,awesome. U have done a great job by teaching all of us.
I too have done chemanthy work in a salwar. But I didn’t know the name .I was thrilled to see the work in ur blog.
prabha
hi deepa!!!
xellent work!! very gud tuts!!!
bye! gayathri rajesh,bangalore