AHIR EMBROIDERY

The typical wandering tribes who look after cattle (they assert themselves as the successors of the Hindu God ‘Lord Krishna’) are termed as the ‘Ahirs’. These people are believed to have relocated from ‘Mathura (Uttar Pradesh, India)’ to ‘Gujarat’. They have a peculiar embroidering system in which ‘chain stitch’ is used to draw the design sketch and ‘herringbone’ stitch is made use of for packing the pattern. Generally the patterns will be of ‘peacocks’, ‘elephants’, ‘parrots’, and ‘flowers’. However, the use of mirrors is an essential part of this pattern motif.