Baloch embroidery

Baloch or Baloch embroidery: The art of needlework or embroidery is to decorate simple fabrics with eye-catching drawings and turn them into textiles with various and attractive colors. This art is common among many tribes and clans of the world. Needlework, also known locally as "needlework", is one of the most original arts common among the Baloch tribes. It can be said that needlework has a direct relationship with the silk production industry and historical evidence shows that in the past, silkworm breeding was common in Balochistan and the silk trade had a hot market.

It can be said that needlework with industrial silk producers can be provided to you and provide this city so that you can build silkworms in Balochistan and provide them with a warm market silk.

History of Baloch needlework

Needlework is one of the most common arts in the field of handicrafts among Iranian Baluch women. Baloch needlework motifs, although appearing in the form of regular geometric shapes on the fabric, are usually taken from the natural elements of the environment.

The variety, beauty and originality of these designs on the one hand and their considerable connection with nature and the surrounding environment on the other hand has caused the influence of these paintings from natural forms, make this art very beautiful and attractive.

Evidence shows that the art of Baloch needlework has existed among the Baloch since the beginning of Islam and the peak of this beautiful art was in the patriarchal period, especially the Timurid and Safavid periods.

The traditions of the Baloch people are rooted in this art and the identity of Baloch women can be found in this art.

Baloch needlework is a delicate and long-standing art, which no one really knows since when it has been popular in Iran and less mentioned in historical books. However, it can be said that the work of Baloch embroidery, which is the same as silk flowers sewn on fabrics, has been related to the silk production industry for some time.

In Balochistan, the most important way to decorate clothes is this beautiful embroidery, which is sewn with precision and elegance.

The women's shirt is decorated with four pieces:

1- A piece of chest

2- Two pieces of sleeve head

A piece under the chest that is sewn vertically to the bottom of the shirt

A pocket, locally called a pendulum.

And the bottom of the dress (trouser leg) is also embroidered with needles.

Types of Baloch embroidered designs:

1- Blur designs: three blur, four blur, six blur, seven blur and ten blur.

2- Flower designs

3- Border or flower designs

4- Eye designs

5- Work tools and means of living

6- Elements of nature such as the moon and the sun

7- Domestic and wild animals such as horses, camels, chickens, roosters, goats and leopards, which are called horse ears, stuffed chickens, chickens and roosters, patience, camels, goats.

8- Birds

9- Reptiles like snakes

In Sistan and Baluchestan, Baluch embroidery is sewn on fabric in two ways:

Left dose or behind the work where the taro fabric is counted and embossed. Which is more expensive and expensive in terms of age and price.

The right embroidery, which is stamped and embroidered on the fabric, is what most Afghans embroider in this way, because the work is completed faster and the price is cheaper.