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Ustad Faiyaz Khan & Chowk Chikankari Masters

Old Lucknow Chowk needlework lineage preserving thirty-two classical white-on-white Chikankari stitches including murri, phanda, and pierced jali.

Lucknow Chikankari embroiderer working microscopic whitework stitches on sheer mulmul muslin

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Lucknow Chikankari embroiderer working microscopic whitework stitches on sheer mulmul muslin
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Working in the historic karkhanas of Lucknow's Chowk quarter, Ustad Faiyaz Khan and senior Chowk embroiderers safeguarded court-grade Awadhi whitework needlecraft—rice-grain murri knots, millet-seed phanda relief, shadow-work bakhiya, and thread-pulled jali open latticework without cutting a single warp yarn. 1

Documented in the Ministry of Textiles Shilp Guru compendium, their teaching workshops sustained slow hand-block wash-print preparation and 120-count mulmul embroidery against machine-stitch dilution. 1

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Lucknow Chikankari Shadow Embroidery
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What’s on this page is sourced from the citation below.

SourcePublisherLicence
Lucknow Chikan Craft — Geographical Indications Registry DossierMinistry of Commerce and Industry, India, 2008—
"Ustad Faiyaz Khan & Chowk Chikankari Masters." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/hasan-bi-chikankari · CC BY-SA 4.0.