{"id":16538,"date":"2023-11-01T10:13:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T04:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16538"},"modified":"2025-04-04T20:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:37:11","slug":"tamil-lambadi-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tamil-lambadi-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Lambadi embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Tamil Lambadi embroidery<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lambadi community has been practicing the craft of Lambadi embroidery for a long time, which has served the purpose of\u00a0decorating their own attire and household items.<\/li>\n<li>It has been an integral part of their identity, and the Lambadis have made constant efforts to maintain it.<\/li>\n<li>The intricate embroidery is done by Lambadi women on cotton and\u00a0silk fabrics, using colourful cotton threads.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The traditional embroidery designs are all geometrical patterns with\u00a0squares, rectangles, and circles.<\/li>\n<li>They have also been influenced by the\u00a0local forests, birds, fruits and flowers.<\/li>\n<li>The elderly women of this tribal community\u00a0continue to wear the Petia, their traditional five-piece dress which is\u00a0made with Mushru silk from Kutch.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Lambadi community<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lambanis are also known as Banjaras and most of them are found in\u00a0Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu Karnataka states in South India.<\/li>\n<li>This community settled across the country with different names, have permanently abandoned their nomadic lifestyle and settled in their settlements called Tandas.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0speak Gor Boli also called Lambadi which belongs to the\u00a0Indo-Aryan Group of Languages. Lambadi has no script.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Embroidery?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a decorative and artistic craft that involves embellishing fabric or other materials with needle and thread. It is a technique where designs, patterns, or images are created by sewing various types of stitches onto a base material. Embroidery can be used to add intricate and colorful details to textiles, garments, accessories, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/keeping-the-intriguing-tamil-lambadi-art-of-embroidery-alive\/article67473710.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Keeping the intriguing Tamil Lambadi art of embroidery alive<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Lambadi embroidery   has been an integral part of Lambadi community dentity, and the Lambadis have made constant efforts to maintain it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}