Vata Chikan Embroidery

Vata chikan embroidery is a style of work from the Jammu and Kashmir region in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent.

Vata chikan embroidery is characterized by the use of the buttonhole stitch to fill the main motifs. 

Source: KALE, Smita (2011). Kashmir to Kanyakumari Indian Embroidery: State by State Embroidery of India, Bloomington: Author House, p. 19.

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