her daughter the symbolism still remains even though the baghs arent made by the family over the last 14 years we have tried to elevate the quality of phulkari being made in punjab she adds but if phulkari revivalist harinder singh is to be believed the struggle to restore and modernise the threadwork has been a challenge singh has collected around 250300 old bagh from various sources to document them for their patterns fabrics and age we have started digitising the old vintage patterns rather than just keeping them recorded on paper or the soft media he mentions using this technique his team has created authentic phulkari products that are wearable and fashionable and what better way to celebrate the spring than some phulkari florals be it as dupattas or in dcorphulkari is deeply entrenched in the cultural fabric of punjab from flowy dupattas to sarees and modern silhouettes phulkari can be translated into modern wardrobe with great ease manish malhotra designerphulkari factsthere used to be 52 kinds of phulkari stitches but only a few have survivedon the basis of the type of work patterns and style it can be broadly categorised as phulkari bagh and chopein the phulkari type the embroidery does not fully cover the fabric but the patterns are dispersed at intervals on the clothin bagh meaning garden style the entire surface is embroidered by using the darning stitch horizontal vertical and diagonal numerous designs are madechope is a style embroidered on red with yellowwe need to take phulkari beyond punjab as has happened with chikankari from lucknow or kantha from bengal because whenever an art form is brought into the contemporary market that in itself makes it come alive alka pande art historian and restorer phulkari uses linear stitches to create intricate flowerlike patterns the finished work is known as bagh or garden stitching tradition a shot of a phulkari embroidery in action above and various ways to use the work in your home