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Fashion and Influences
Many fashion houses of Bangladesh have experimented extensively with the Nokshi Katha such as Arong, Bengal gallery, and Mayasir. They have come forward to create and sponsor different exhibitions to show the significant traditional heritage in artificial needle motifs work displayed by Nokshi Katha.
Embroidery design heavily influences the fashion world in Bangladesh today, and it all started with the creation of kathas. Designers have reinvented the Nokshi Katha embroidery to be applied on various lifestyle and fashion products. It’s worth mentioning it’s also become very popular in other parts of the world as well.
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(Image courtesy: www.wanderingsilk.org) These designs are present in shawls, salwar kameez, skirts and all types of fashion items. Embroidery is also applied on wall art and such. Even in the Western world the mandala designs are very popular, which is a very common design in katha composition. If you were to go to any hippie shops you will see many designs and color patterns that were used in kathas.
Besides textiles artisans have started creating katha influenced wall art, photo frame, bags, pillows, hats and many other home decor items.
Pictured here is a salwar kameez inspired by katha embroidery . The designs are very intricate and can be time consuming to make. It’s from a brand called Aarong and it’s considered a high end store. This would retail for 20,000 taka.
(Image courtesy: www.aarong.com)
(Images from: www.aarong.com)
Katha embroidery designs are present in many items such as pillow covers, tupi(hat), kurta, bags and other similar items.
(Image courtesy: www.aarong.com)
