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Butta Designs For Aari and Maggam Work Blouses – Printable

Butta Designs For Aari and Maggam Work Blouses – Printable

All the below images can be printed. Images can be re-sized depending on where you want to use the Buttas. These can be placed on the sleeves, around the neckline, on plain saree pallu and kurtis as well. Few of them below also suit home decor like curtains, and bed linens and pillow cases. Shop Embroidery Supplies HERE. Tracing Powder or Chalk Powder – BUY NOW How to prepare the tracing sheet and transfer the design on the Fabric ?? If you are leaning aari work or maggam work then these designs below are of great for practice. Download the images…

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Sleeve Designs for Aari embroidery or Maggam work – Printable

Sleeve Designs for Aari embroidery or Maggam work – Printable

Please Note – Not all designs may fit all sleeve sizes. Sometimes you may have to extend the design. So it is always better to do a paper cutting of the sleeves before tracing the design. Tracing Powder or Chalk Powder – BUY NOW Very trendy and rare design that looks gorgeous on a elbow length sleeves. The 2 parrots are the main highlight of this design. The same design can also be used in the kalis of lehenga. Just the parrots can be used on kids pattu blouse as well. Tracing Powder or Chalk Powder – BUY NOW Another…

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Embroidery Neckline Tracing Sheets – Printable

Embroidery Neckline Tracing Sheets – Printable

Please NOTE – Not all designs fit A3 size. Shop Now – Embroidery Supplies Tracing Powder or Chalk Powder – BUY NOW This above design is actually for a boat neck blouse or kurti, however a part of it can be traced and the same design can be built for any neck shape like round neck, leaf neck or pot neck. Satin stitch, french knots and zari can be used to fill the design. Shop Now – Embroidery Supplies This is a very beautiful design apt for a kurti, specially for a organza, tussar silk or pure silk material. A…

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Tracings for Hand Embroidery and Aari Work

Tracings for Hand Embroidery and Aari Work

To trace the following designs you can use 1 of the 2 methods 1st Method – Sooper Easy, just use yellow carbon or white carbon like we use blue or black carbon with paper. 2nd Method – Little tedious, After you have the print out on the paper, trace the complete design on a plastic base tracing sheet and then make holes on each and every line of the design, either manually or using a electric pen, once the punching is complete, next prepare a mixture. How to prepare mixture for embroidery – For the mixture you will need tracing…

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Single Color Crochet Saree Kuchu With Tassels and Beads

Single Color Crochet Saree Kuchu With Tassels and Beads

I came across this design on Pinterest and I thought of trying the same using silk thread to suit our South Indian Sarees. This design can be worked using Kamal Kadai Thread as well. It is very easy to work this design and adding gold beads gives a very rich look. If you are not a fan of beads you can totally skip using them. In case you are working this kind of design on a cotton saree you can use cotton thread along with wooden beads. Same cotton thread can be used for tassels as well. This design is…

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Saree Kuchu or Tassels using Crochet Motifs

Saree Kuchu or Tassels using Crochet Motifs

This design is my own creation. Whenever I come across a new bead design I start thinking how can it be used in crocheting saree tassels. People who have been watching my videos and following me on my Social Media would know how much I love crocheting. I also like trying out new designs and I must say not everything turns out good. Despite of failing I continue to try new designs. I have used eye shaped gold beads and crystals to work the motifs and then hand stitched the same to the saree pallu. For a beginner it might…

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Crochet Saree Kuchu | Crochet Border for Sarees

Crochet Saree Kuchu | Crochet Border for Sarees

This is a flower design with 4 petals and 2 cute leaves and a stem. This design looks very pretty specially on Soft Silk and Heavy Silk Sarees. So give it a try and let me know !! It can be worked in single color as well as 2 to 3 colors. I have not added any kind of beads but you can add if you want. In case you want to add tassels ie silk thread bunches then there will be a slight change while working the 2nd line. This design looks good even for the sleeves as it…

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Crochet Flower Using Small Donuts

Crochet Flower Using Small Donuts

The video below shows how to make crochet flowers using small donuts. This design looks very trendy especially on designer silk sarees. I have used 1 cm size plastic donuts to make flower. Kamal Kadai thread is used here in this video, but you may use silk thread or any suitable thread according to your project. It might look complicated but its very easy to work. So give it a try. Materials – Knotty Threadz Online Store Join the group – The Crochet Club- Knotty Threadz on Facebook and follow us on Facebook and Instagram.. Subscribe to my channel on…

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Half Moon Crochet Motifs for Saree Kuchu or Saree Tassels

Half Moon Crochet Motifs for Saree Kuchu or Saree Tassels

I have created this design on my own. It is actually inspired by half moon shaped latkans for the blouse. One day when I was taking pictures of a Blouse which had this shaped latkans, I thought why not try the same in crochet for saree kuchu. I gave it a try and I loved the way it looked. I have used Crochet Hook No.7 , but if you want to work smaller motifs you can use Hook No.10 as well. I have worked the complete motif in single color because my saree is single color. If you are working…

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Saree Kuchu With Maggam Work Blouses

Saree Kuchu With Maggam Work Blouses

Below are the images of our most recent Saree Kuchu and Aari Work or Maggam Work Blouse Designs. Each blouse is carefully designed keeping the client’s requirement and taste in mind. The material we use for maggam embroidery will last long and will not turn black unlike in most cases. Mostly embroidery is done using silk threads, zardosi, zari, jharkans, kundans, etc. For orders please visit our store located in Banaswadi Bangalore. Contact – 70221 57753

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Saree Kuchu Design Catalog

Saree Kuchu Design Catalog

These Saree Kuchu designs are inspired by very old patterns usually used to make door hangings also called torans, replacing wool with Silk Thread. Here are a few latest designs handcrafted by our team. Crochet work is done using 6 to 8 strands of silk thread. Different types of beads, pearls, and crystals are used to give it a grand look. It is usually finished by adding a bunch of silk threads referred to as kuchu or tassel. Watch the videos linked if you want to learn how to work the designs. Visit – www.knottythreadz.com for all kuchu making related…

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