Deepa’s back with Kashmir work

Deepa Balagopal (This and That blog) lets us look over her shoulder at her continuing project, embroidered bed linen. And she shares this nice morsel:

Chain stitch filling is a speciality of Kashmiri Kashida. Kashmir work uses stitches such as Chain, fly stitch, feather stitch, fern stitch, satin etc. The point to be noted about this type of embroidery is that it uses only one or two type of stitches in a piece , not all together. For instance, the whole embroidery could be done with chain stitch alone. This block is not pure Kashmiri Kashida, but is inspired from the same.

Lovely! Read more on Deepa’s post.