Parsi Gara Embroidery

Parsi *gara* embroidery is the Chinese-influenced satin-stitch tradition the Zoroastrian community of western India brought home through the 19th-century China trade. Worked in fine resham silk on deep aubergine, wine and violet-black sari grounds, it renders cranes, roosters and rolling vines in off-white and pastel thread that glows against the dark satin.

This design system distills that heirloom craft into digital form — violet-black grounds, luminous off-white needlework, scalloped *kor* borders, and refined Garamond serifs that carry the intimacy of a stitched sari pallu.

帕西 *gara* 刺绣是西印度琐罗亚斯德社群经由十九世纪对华贸易带回的中国风缎面绣传统。绣娘以细密的丝线（resham），在深茄紫、酒红与紫黑的纱丽底色上，绣出仙鹤、雄鸡与连绵藤蔓，米白与柔粉的丝线在暗缎之上熠熠生辉。

本设计系统将这份传家手艺转化为数字语言——紫黑底色、流光般的米白针迹、扇贝形的 *kor* 镶边与精致的 Garamond 衬线字体，承载一方手绣纱丽帕卢（pallu）的私密与温润。绝不使用纸白或米白底色，米白只作丝线般的点缀。