Kasuti: Learn the Craft

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Free for now. This course is still being compiled – lessons, photos and charts are being added as we go – so it is free while it grows.

Kasuti is the counted-thread embroidery of north Karnataka: no tracing, no knots, and – done well – the same on both sides of the cloth. This course takes you from what Kasuti is to stitching a small pallu panel of your own, in short lessons with clear diagrams and four practice projects.

It is built from our ebook Kasuti – The Complete Encyclopedia, which remains the full reference.

Made by Dreams & Designs, Basaveshwaranagar, Bengaluru – where we stitch Kasuti trousseau pieces and teach Kasuti in the studio.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Explain what makes Kasuti Kasuti, and where it comes from
  • Work all four stitches: Gavanti, Murgi, Neyge and Menthe
  • Start and finish threads without a single knot
  • Read, scale and mirror a Kasuti chart
  • Stitch four graded projects, from a border to a mini pallu
  • Tell real hand-worked Kasuti from an imitation

Course Content

1 · Foundations

2 · Tools and materials

3 · The four stitches

4 · No knots

5 · Motifs and design

6 · Practice projects

7 · Troubleshooting and care

8 · Kasuti today

9 · Kasuti among the world’s embroideries

10 · Taking Kasuti further

11 · Beyond the basics

12 · The future of Kasuti

13 · Sourcing, teaching and reference

14 · From hobby to business: Kasuti

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