ZARI, ZARDOZI

About:

• Embroidery done with metallic threads is called kalabattu and forms the zari.
  
  
• The main zari production centres are Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.
  
  

Process:

• Here the metal ingots are melted into metal bars called pasa from which lengths are got by beating it after treatment.
  
  
• This is then pulled through perforated steel plates to make it into wires, followed by the tarkashi process to make it thin with rubber and diamond dies.
  
  
• The last stage is called badla where the wire is flattened and twisted with silk or cotton thread to become kasab or kalabattu.