These embroidery motifs were often representations of either Chinese village scenes or the emblems of good luck in the Chinese culture or simply floral.
A few pictures of some of the more stunning embroideries copied from the original Garaas on more modern cloth tell the whole story:
FLORAL EMBROIDERY :
Multicolour
red again.
in blue.
FLORAL WITH GRAPHIC MOTIFS:
graphic leaves
with doves and border with Pheasants.
STORKS:
with the Phoenix
PHEASANTS in EMBROIDERY:
Pheasants and floral vines on Black in fine, multicolored embroidery.Perhaps the most envied possession.
Roosters and hens (Parsi women had nicknamed this design “Marga-Batka”).
The pictures above are of copies of the original Garaas on modern day cloth and machine embroidered.
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