Creative Stitches

First step to do the Aari embroidery or maggam embroidery is fix the Aari frame with cloth. And make ready things need to do Aari embroidery like thread needle and thread. Need more practice and patience to do Aari embroidery. The below video shows how to do Aari embroidery basic stitch. The aari embroidery stitches looks like chain stitch in free hand embroidery.  First hold the needle in one hand usually in right hand. Hold the thread under the fabric and hold its tip in the left hand.  Punch the needle on the fabric and pull the thread from the bottom of the fabric using the hook of the needle. When punch the needle put the thread in the hook of the needle using left hand and catch the thread in the needle. After pulled the thread on the fabric , move needle to small distance  and rotate the needle clockwise and anti clockwise then punch there. This cycle is one chain. Repeat the chain stitch with equal distance to form beautiful stitches. ...

The first step of Aari embroidery is trace the selected design in the cloth to do Aari embroidery. Then fix the embroidery frame whichever that is round shaped small frame or cot shaped frame which is depending on the size of the fabric. The next thing is fix the cloth in the Aari frame. How to fix the cloth in the Aari round free hand embroidery frame. The above video shows how to fix the round frame and cloth to made the Aari embroidery. We can make stitches of embroidery with too tighten and stretchy fabric only. So once you make sure the tighten of the cloths.  Stretch the fabric along the frame sides and hear the drum sound when u tap on the fabric. After that tighten the embroidery hook nuts.  After tighten the hook we shouldn’t stretch the fabric along frame sides, it causes to tear the cloth. 

Aari embroidery is done in stretched fabric. Generally there are two types of frames used in Aari/ maggam embroidery. They are  Round frame  Cot shape frame Round shape frame comes with standard size which is used to hold the usual hand embroidery wooden frame; which is used to hold the tighted cloth for free hand embroidery. We can do the Aari embroidery using with the round shaped Aari frame along with wooden or plastic frame. Round shape Aari frame is used only for small designs and small sizes of clothes and fabrics. Cot shaped frames are in various sizes and different sizes of cots are depending on the sizes of fabric. We can also do Aari embroidery on small size of cloths using cot shaped Aari frame. It is used to stretch and hold the fabric. How to fix the Aari round iron frame.

There are two types of needle used in Aari embroidery, maggam embroidery and tambour embroidery. One is used for thread embroidery and another one is used for zardosi, beads, etc.,  These needles comes in various sizes and various materials. Different sizes of needles are used depending on sizes of thread, beads, zardosi and using it depends on the design of embroidery. The needle at one end is sharp and has little hook to hook the thread or other materials. Aari/ maggam/ tambour embroidery is done with needle on the stretched fabric. We can do this embroidery on any kind of fabric.

Aari embroidery is the most popular embroidery in India. It also known as Maggam embroidery in Andra Pradesh, Adda work north India regions and Tambour embroidery in France, and other Europe countries. In Aari embroidery long needle with small hook used to decorate the fabric with colorful silk threads, zardosi, Zari thread, beads, kundan stones, sequins, mirror and so on. There are many types of stitches used to design the fabric.

Welcome to Creative Stitches . This blog is about the embroidery, the craft to decorating fabric using needle, thread, ribbon, zordosi, sequins, beads, ribbon. There are many types of hand embroidery and some kinds of embroidery has different names in different regions.  Some popular hand embroidery types:        Kantha embroidery        Chickenkari embroidery         Aari embroidery          Shashiko embroidery         Shichuan embroidery         Ribbon embroidery          Free hand thread embroidery