Lucknow Trip Overview
Lucknow has been a center of an embroidery industry that has survived and still flourishes today. This excursion will familiarize you with the industry and give you an intricate, detailed view of an art form, which reflects the past but is just as important today.
Highlights:
• Embroidery familiarization
• Chikan and Zari embroideries styles
• Talk by an Expert
• Home cooked Rastogi Lunch (Beverage Excluded)
Additional Info
Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Lucknow, India
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Lucknow has been a center of an embroidery industry that has survived and still flourishes today. This excursion will familiarize you with the industry and give you an intricate, detailed view of an art form, which reflects the past but is just as important today.
Highlights:
• Embroidery familiarization
• Chikan and Zari embroideries styles
• Talk by an Expert
• Home cooked Rastogi Lunch (Beverage Excluded)
Itinerary
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Stop At: Lucknow, Lucknow, Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh
You will be picked up from your hotel within the city center and will be escorted in your air-conditioned vehicle to the workshop.
Get an intricate understanding of how Threads of Lucknow works. Chikan for example, is an art that provides livelihood to so many women in and around Lucknow, empowers them to be a part of the thriving local economy, supplements their household income and above all keeps the traditional craft alive. These are mostly done at the small studios within the homes of designers, on big wooden frames on a single piece out an exquisite example of craft
You will learn details about this craft from the men and women at a Workshop on a half-day, hands-on experiential sojourn.
Each guest gets a personal embroidery kit to learn the craft, a talk is delivered by a designer and guests are taught this the embroidery. Also enjoy a home cooked Vegetarian Rastogi Lunch (Beverage Excluded).
Once your session ends you will be driven back to your hotel within the city center.
Duration: 4 hours
