Meet the Artisan
Meghiben Rupa Meriya
Gujurat, India
Meghiben is an accomplished narrative artist. She illustrated one of the UN millennia goals for a UNDP Delhi project in 2007, and created one of the prototypes for the UNESCO Seal of Excellence award in 2008. In 2003 she illustrated the story of her life. In 2009, she revised the work and submitted it for the President’s national award competition. The text for the piece follows. "For several years I thought about making a piece which tells the story of my life. This piece covers my childhood, my village, people and the agriculture which I remember. The story starts in the lower left. This is the village of my birth, Ratnal, about 25 KM from Bhuj. We ...
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Silk Purse with Hand Embroidery and Mirror Work (Golden White)
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- Vibrant, stylish and intricate
- Artisan Design Brand product. An Artisan Design Brand product is not just executed, but designed by the artisan who produced it. Your guarantee of a genuine work of art!
- Certificate of Authenticity signed by the Artisan, included with the product
About this Fair Trade Product
A not so ordinary everyday purse! This is a perfect evening bag to make a statement. Cute and compact silk shoulder bag that features an inner zipper pocket, mirrored embellishment and fully lined.
Fine, Rabari mirror work in chain, cretan and buttonhole stitches, using hallmark diamond shaped mirrors. Glass bead strap and details, cotton threads on dupioni silk. Magnet closing.
This bag is based on the traditional theli, a bag used for daily work. Women make embroidered thelis as part of their dowries, and their husbands use them to shop for rations and vegetables. This scaled down version is done in the style of Rabaris, camel herding nomads of Kutch. The traditional pattern of limbudi tak is used. Mirrors are hand cut into diamond shapes, recalling the limbudi, the fruit of the neem tree.
About Rabari Embroidery
Rabari embroidery is unique to the nomadic Rabaris. Essential to Rabari embroidery is the use of mirrors in a variety of shapes. Rabaris outline patterns in chain stitch, then decorate them with a regular sequence of mirrors and accent stitches, in a regular sequence of colors. Rabaris also use decorative back stitching, called bakhiya, to decorate the seams of women's blouses and men's kediya/ jackets. The style, like Rabaris, is ever evolving, and in abstract motifs Rabari women depict their changing world. Contemporary bold mirrored stitching nearly replaced a repertoire of delicate stitches.
Product Details
- Dimensions: 6.50" x 8"
- Material: Dupioni silk
- Brand: Artisan Design
- Use and Care: Hand Wash
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