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Amazing art of triabal- Toda embroidery

Let us view unique tribal embroidery style _ Toda  embroidery, which on rapture the designers. The today tribes women Practice this old thread work, who are inhabit of Nilgiris region in Tamil nadu.  Tracing the tradition Toda residentially know by the name ‘ Pugur' in Toda language (meaning flower),  the embroidery tradition has lived through a century of its documented history to manifest today in drapes,  superman, skirts, Kurtis, Table cloth, pillow covers, jackets, stoles, beside the traditional puthukuli ( shawl), it’s original place of majesty.  The Nilgiris are home to eighteen tribal groups among when Toda are the most distinct. Their language, through Dravidian, has no script and their first contact to outer world were in 1799. Basically, Toda’s are agricultural  and buffalo rearing tribes. The women involved in embroider the traditional draped garment called phoothkuli or shawl.  It is a thick while unbleached cotton ...