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Kasuti of Karnataka

Kasuti embroidery is a traditional embroidery style from Karnataka, India. It uses cotton threads and simple stitches like running stitch, backstitch, and cross stitch to create intricate designs on silk or canvas fabric without tracing patterns. Common motifs include mythological figures, architecture, flora, and fauna. Stitches include gavanti for knots, murgi for zigzags, negi for woven effects, and menthi for cross stitch filling. Colors traditionally used are reds, oranges, purples, greens, yellows, and blues in combinations like red-blue and green-yellow.

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Kasuti of Karnataka

Kasuti embroidery is a traditional embroidery style from Karnataka, India. It uses cotton threads and simple stitches like running stitch, backstitch, and cross stitch to create intricate designs on silk or canvas fabric without tracing patterns. Common motifs include mythological figures, architecture, flora, and fauna. Stitches include gavanti for knots, murgi for zigzags, negi for woven effects, and menthi for cross stitch filling. Colors traditionally used are reds, oranges, purples, greens, yellows, and blues in combinations like red-blue and green-yellow.

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Kasuti Of Karnataka

Introduction-
-Kasuti is world famous embroidery of Karnataka state, earlier known as Mysore State.
-The Motifs And the art speaks about the traditions, customs, and professions of the people of
Karnataka.
-It is said that the kasuti resembles the embroidery of Austria, Hungary And Spain.
-The word kasuti can be analyzed as “Kai” meaning “hand” and “suti” meaning “cotton
threads”, i.e., a hard work of cotton thread in kannad, the language of Karnataka.
-Other centers of production are Bilaspur, Dharwar Belgam And Jamakhandi district.
Fabric Used-
-Fine silk fabric of the sarees was used earlier in addition to this, canvas is used now.
-The base color is dark, usually black or dark blue.
Threads Used-
-Traditionally the thread was drawn from the tassel of the pallu of the sarees.
-Cotton threads are used.
The colors most frequently used are red, orange, purple, green, yellow, and blue.
-The commonly used combinations are red-blue, red- yellow, red-white, blue-orange and
green-yellow.
Stiches Used-
-Stiches in Kasuti are always vertical, horizontal, and diagonal.
-The main specialty of this embroidery is that never the design is traced in the material to be
embroidered and the embroidery starts without knotting thread but with a tiny back stich.
-The four types of stiches are gavanti, murgi, negi and menthi.
(1) Gavanti is the most simple and common stich, derived from the kannad word “Gantu”
means “knot”. It is a double running stich, Gavanti may be worked in horizontal, vertical or
diagonal directions.
(2) Murgi is a zigzag running stich which appears like steps of a ladder or staircase. It is same as
gavanti stitch but works in a step rise manner, where the design appears same on right and
wrong side of the material. Smallest motifs like square, triangle, hexagonal, ladders and flowers
are to be practiced so that the elaborate designs can be worked.
(3) Negi is another stich in kasuti. ‘Negi’ in kannada means ‘to weave’ i.e. the design with negi
design has an overall effect of a woven design. Negi is nothing but ordinary running or darning
stich. It is worked in long and short straight line or floats.
(4) Menthi means the ordinary cross stich. This cross stich is usually appears heavy as is used
for filling purpose. Similar to negi, even the stitch does not give same appearance on either
sides of the cloth.

Motifs Used-
-The motifs used in kasuti embroidery ranged from mythological and architectural to the
beautiful flora and fauna i.e., gopuras, chariot, Shiva-Linga, Bull (Nandi), tiger, lamp stand,
crown of Shiva (Shivana), Swastika, Sun, Tulsi Varvndawan, Hanuman Etc.

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