CHIKANKARI HAND EMBROIDERED KURTI FABRIC

Tepchi stitch is also known as Taipchi or Tipkhi stitch and is a specific type of stitching work that is used in chikankari embroidery (also known as chikan work). This is mainly an extremely simplistic darning stitch. In this style, the thread is woven along the grain of the fabric in single rows at a time. In terms of skill, the most basic of sewing skills are required to create this style of the stitch which is why it is referred to as a more inferior form of chikankari than all the other stitches that are used to create the embroidery. Chikankari is one of the most famous styles of embroidery in India and it is said that Lucknow is the point of origin of this particular embroidery. Some historians claim that this embroidery was introduced to India by Nur Jahan, the wife of Emperor Shah Jahan. Regardless of the sources of origin, there is no dispute over the fact that this style of embroidery originated in Lucknow itself. Lucknow is, thus, considered a capital in India for chikankari work.