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TextileGI Tagged · 2013
Toda Embroidery
TownOoty
StateTamil Nadu
Craft typeTextile
GI tag2013
About
A striking red-and-black embroidery tradition of the Toda tribal community in the Nilgiri hills, worked entirely without a knot, using a technique that produces an identical pattern on both sides of the cloth.
Did you know? Toda embroiderers never tie a single knot while working — the entire pattern is built using a continuous running stitch technique passed down orally through generations, with no written or drawn pattern guide.