Sandalwood Pens

Luna Walter, CA, USA

Bags are useful pieces of a girls wardrobe. They not only add colour and style to your dress, also are important in carrying essential items. The bags we present over here are embroided and have mirror work on them.

The term embroidery encompasses many different techniques and stitches. Indian embroidery has been greatly influenced by the movement of people along ancient trade routes into the subcontinent from Iran (Persia), the Agean, Afganistan, China and other points. Accounts of early traders indicate that richly embroidered clothes were worn by wealthy people on the Indian subcontinent as early as 300BC. However few examples of these early pieces survive.

The English and Dutch East India Companies brought embroidered work into Europe during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. As a result, many fine examples of embroidered work can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

Mirror work is an embroidery technique that is particular to India. The technique, which may have come from Baluchistan (now in Pakistan), became popular in the 17th century during the Mughal period and is thought to have been developed by the wife of Shah Jahan.

Because the mirrors have no holes. they are secured to the fabric by threads which are worked around the mirror. Round mirrors are the most common although squares, triangles, and rectangles are also used. We carry all kinds of purses ranging from backpacks to passport bags. Also, our range in the design of purses goes from complete mirror designs to mirror+embroidery to patch work.