Embroidery is the craft of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as pearls, beads, quills, and sequins.
Some of the basic techniques or stitches of the earliest embroidery are chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch. Those stitches remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.
Some of Indian Embroideries are – Aari, Chikankari(UP), Gota (Jaipur), Kantha(Bengal), Kathi (Gujarat), Kashmiri (Kashmir), Mukaish work(Lucknow), Phulkari (Punjab & Haryana), Zardozi emb.