About Punjabi Phulkari (Floral Bagh)
Phulkari — "flower work" — is the densest darning-stitch tradition in South Asia. Punjabi women embroider golden silk floss on the reverse side of rust-red khaddar cotton, building vertical chevron stitches into diamond grids, floral butis, and darshan-dwar gateway arches until not a thread of base cloth remains visible. A wedding bagh takes over a thousand hours.
This design system captures the bagh's joyful density: gold-floss page fields, rust-khaddar border bands, fuchsia and pistachio floral accents, and chevron-stitch texture overlays that echo the hand-stitched grain of the original textile.
- Origin
- Punjab, India (Patiala, Sangrur, Amritsar) and Pakistan (Hazara, Sialkot, Multan)
- Era
- 15th century onward; pre-Partition peak 1850–1947; post-1947 East Punjab revival
- Key figures
- Sarbjit Kaur Kang · Pepin van Roojen · Anu Bala
- Movements
- Punjabi dowry tradition · Punjab-Hazara textile continuum · post-Partition diaspora revival
Punjabi Phulkari (Floral Bagh) design spec
Colors
Typography
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