In Kashmir, we experience colorful embroidery on many different types of apparel

and fabric - Crewel Fabrics, Shawls, Jackets and many more.

There are various types of embroidery techniques that Kashmiri craftsmen use,

1. Crewel embroidery: Crewel embroidery uses woolen or art-silk yarn for

embroidery. The background fabric can be cotton, organza, velvet, linen or jute
suitable for
curtains and upholstery projects (except organza which is a sheer fabric). These
fabrics also find good use in making bedspreads, throws and pillows.

Crewel embroidery is by nature a chain stitch and is used greatly in the

manufacture of chainstitch rugs, pillow cases and cushion covers.
Wool or artsilk yarn is worked in an allover fashion giving the chainstitch rugs a
carpet like feel.

2. SOZNI : Done using a needle, “sozni” is worked on Pashmina shawls, woolen

shawls, jackets, salwar kameez and sarees.
Work done on pashmina is comparatively much finer (picture below) than other
fabrics (cotton, silk and wool).

3. TILLA: It is 'Silver and gold embroidery', this type of embroidery is worked on

ladies cloaks (“pheron”),
shawls and salwar kameez. It is a type of needlework embroidery and done using
imitation gold or silver thread.

4. Aari: It is done using a pointed crochet ("Aari") on a cotton, wool, silk or

some other suitable fabric.

Learning Outcome:
- To understand the Jammu and Kashmir heritage craft - embroidery work and its
types
- To apply the mathematical knowledge of similar figure, circles , sectors and 2D
shapes in creating aesthetic design.

Problem:
* A customer needs a embroidery design in a shawl, which incorporates all the
types of Kashmir embroidery design. The dimensions of different geometic figures
are given below
-The rectangular cloth takes ---- cm width and ---height
- Diameter of AARI design circle 10cm
- The Crewal embroidery takes 10 cm width and 15 cm length
- The Sozni embroidery takes the side of length 10 cm
- The design is given below, find the area of the non embroidary cloth.