This document provides an overview of Gujarat's culture, including its festivals, cuisine, crafts, textiles, costumes, and jewelry. Some key points: - Gujarat is known for folk dances like garba and raas that are performed during Navratri festivals. Traditional Gujarati food is primarily vegetarian and healthy. - The state has rich textile traditions like Patola silk sarees, Bandhani tie-dye, embroidery styles like Banni and Kutchi that use mirrors and threadwork. - Traditional Gujarati costumes vary by region and community but include items like chaniya cholis for women and kediyus for men. Bridal wear

1. Gujarat
Name :- Anjali Jain
Surbhi Rungta
Subject :- History of fashion
Submitted to :-Aarti mamm

2. Introduction
• One of the most industrialized
states of India, Gujarat derives
its name from Gujaratta,
meaning the land of the
Gurjars. It is located on the
western part of the Indian
subcontinent and has an
international boundary with
Pakistan. The state of Gujarat
is rich in culture, history and
crafts.

3. Festivals
• The folk traditions of
Gujarat include bhavai and
raas- garba. The raas-
garba is a folk dance done
as a celebration of Navratri
by Gujarati people.
The folk costume of this
dance is chaniya choli for
women and kedia for men.

4. Food
• Gujarati food is primarily
vegetarian. It is believed
to be one of the healthiest
cuisines in India. The
typical
Gujarati thali consists
of roti or bhakri, dal or ka
dhi, rice and sabzi. Indian
pickle and chhundo are
used as condiments.
In Saurashtra
region, chass (buttermilk)
is believed to be a must-
have in their daily food.
• Royal Gujarati Thali

5. Famous Dishes
Chunda
khandvi
khaman Fafda and jalebi Undhiyu
Thepla

6. Sweets Of Gujarat
mohanthal
ghari
ghughra
shrikhand

7. Houses
Pol[pole] Style Houses
Wood Carving

8. Famous Embroidery Of Gujarat
• Throughout the 17th century, gujarat
was the most important center for fine
commercial embroidery in the world.
• Rabari
• Banni or Heer bharat
• Kutchi
• Sisha or Mirror work
• Kathi work

9. Rabari Embroidery
The Rabari embroidery
variety is mainly defined
by the use of mirrors.
Colorful wear define
traditional Rabari wear.
Most of the designs are
inspired by mythology and
desert habitation. It’s an
interesting collaboration
of style, design and colors.

10. Banni or Heer Bharat
 The banni embroidery has its origin in
the state of Gujarat. Though the state
features a number of other embroidery
forms, the banni embroidery is special. It
is mainly the Kutch region in Gujarat
where Banni embroidery is practised by
the Lohana community on a large scale.
 when a bride comes to her new home
she may never be without garments
designed with Banni embroidery. The
designs are mainly worked in colours like
mauve, yellow and pink.
The Banni embroidery pattern is mostly
liked for the richness of the design.

11. Kathi work
The Kathi community of Gujarat are
known for their incorporation of
mirror work alongside other
Gujarati handicrafts, such as
applique and embroidery. The
results of these designs, commonly
found in Kathi embroidery, are
elaborate and captivating,
encompassing a detailed textural
effect. The ongoing tradition of
using pieces of mirrors as a flower
motif’s centrepiece or as the eyes of
an animal motif derives from the
designs of Kathi embroidery.

12. Kutchi embroidery
The Kutch Embroidery is a handicraft and
textile signature art tradition of the tribal
community of Kutch. This embroidery
with its rich designs has made a notable
contribution to the Indian embroidery
traditions. The embroidery, practiced
normally by women is generally done on
fabrics of cotton, in the form of a net
using cotton or silk threads. In certain
patterns, it is also crafted over silk and
satin. The types of stitches adopted are
“square chain, double buttonhole,
pattern darning, running stitch, satin and
straight stitches”. The signature effect of
the colorful embroidery sparkles when
small mirrors called [abhla] are sewn
over the geometrically shaped designs.

13. Shisha [Mirror
work]
The pieces of mica were used as the
mirrors, but later, people started using
thin blown-glass pieces, which in Hindi
means "little glass". Until recently they
were all irregular, made by hand, and
used mercury, nowadays one can also
find them machine made and regularly
shaped. It's usually found in combination
with other types of stitches like cross
stitch, buttonhole stitch and satin stitch,
nowadays not only by hand but also by
machine. Mirrorwork is very popular for
cushion covers and bedcovers, purses
and decorative hangings as well as in
decorative borders in women's salwar-
kameez and sari.

14. Fabrics
• Vibrance, colors
and elobrate
designs classify
fabrics from the
state of gujarat
and its rich
heritage.

15. Casual male attire
• The casual attire of
gujarati men are
dhoti, long and short
coat known as kafani
as well as turban
known as [phento],
however in recent
times pants and
shirts are becoming
more popular.

16. Traditional male attire
• The main attire which
gujarati male wear is
chorno and kediyu. This
is a traditional outfit of
gujarat.kediyu is a long
sleeved upper garment,
pleated at the chest and
reaching to the waist.
And chorno is a lower
part.

17. Ras and garba costumes
• Keviya- A small coat
with tight sleeves,
pleated frills and
embroidered borders
• Kamarbandha-
Colored Waistbands
• Churidars- Tight
trousers.
• Turban – a colorful
turban are put on
along with the kevia.

18. Casual female attire
• Casually gujarati
womens wear
kameez at home and
sarees outside, worn
in the traditional
gujarati style.

19. Traditional/ Ras garba dress
• Womens traditional
outfit is chaniya and
choli. They used to
wear this outfit in
festivals like
navaratri.

20. Chaniyo - The chaniyo is a coloured
petticoat often embroidered with
abhala or glass pieces.
Choli – a embroidered blouse or
bodice is called choli. It is also
known as ‘polku’.
Odhani – a colored piece of coarse
cloth covering the body and the
head is also taken with chaniyo-
choli known as odhani.

21. Ethnic wear of gujarat
• The ethnic Gujarati attires
are vivid in style and
brightly colored. The
different communities
sport a different style of
dressing such as the
Garacia Jat women wear
multi colored chunnis,
while the Rabari women
wear black open blouses,
also known as Odhnis or
Cholis.

22. Kutch coustmes
• Kutch region people
wear very attractive
costumes. Abhas is
very popular costume
in Kutch area. The
dress covered with
many glass pieces. The
costume stitched with
silver and gold threads
with various designs.
These designs give a lot
of impression to the
beauty of costumes.

23. Bridal wear
• The special red bridal
gharchola odhani worn
over a white saari with an
orange red border known
as panetar.
• The red bandhani odhani is
prepared on silk with a
woven gold border, and
the gold wire is known as
badla.

24. Gharchola
• Traditional red
bandhani sarees
criss crossed with
woven golden
squares sarees are
the ideal dress for
for a gujarati bride.
• Lehngas are also
gaining momentum
popularity as bridal
wear among the
gujaratis.

25. • Patola means “Queen
of Silks”. The Patola Silk
Sarees are one of the
finest varieties of
handloom silk saree
from Gujarat. Patola
sarees are woven with
great clarity and
precision. They are well
known all over the
world for their highly
delicate patterns. These
sarees are woven by
master weavers on a
special type of silk called
‘Patola Silk’.
• gujarat is well known
for its patola saree.

26. Types of patola sarees
 Rajkot patola
 patan patola
• Rajkot Patola: This is only vertically resisting
dyed (single ikkat).
• Patan Patola: This is horizontally-resist dyed
(double ikkat).

27. Rajkot patola Patan patola

28. Tanchoi silk saree
• Tanchoi art was
introduced in
gujarat in 1940.
• Tanchoi silk saree
have exquisite
weaving with the
gold threads and
royal motifs
making the saree
a royal possession.
All the rich parsi
families in gujarat
afford this

29. Bandhani [Art of tie-dye]
• Bandhani is a type of
tie-dye textile decorated
by plucking the cloth
with the fingernails into
many tiny bindings that
form a figurative design.
• Today almost bandhani
making centers are
situated in gujarat.
• Bandhani is also known
as bandhej,
bandhani,piliya,chungidi.

30. • This drape is also called the
‘siddha pallu drape’, which
literally translates into the
‘straight pallu drape’ owing to
the unique way pallu draping. It
is done to hang down the
torso’s front.
• This drape is achieved by first
wrapping the saree around the
waist and pleating it in the
regular way. However, the
pleats are tucked in to the left
side, leaving the left side open.
The pallu is taken around the
back and then over the right
shoulder.

31. Jewellery of women
• Jewellary which is
worn by ladies as part
of there customes
includes mangalsutra,
earrings, necklace,
rings, bangles.

32. Types of jewellery
• The gujarati women as a
part of there tradition
carry a bunch of keys on
there waist and a ring
holder is usually made of
silver.
• A fancy kamarband worn
around the waist known
as kandora is the popular
jewelry of Gujarat. It is
mostly designed in silver
and adoring accessory for
many women.

33. Ivory bangles
• It has a lot of
traditional value in
gujarat where it is a
must for a bride to
wear bangles made
of ivory during the
wedding ceremony.
• Traditional
minakari resin
white bangles of
gujarat.

34. Kutch jewellary
• The silver ornaments
of Kutch are
a reflection of design
purity, where they not
only shine for beauty
but they shine to
make a difference to
the bodies that they
adorn.

35. Pachchikam jewellary
• Pachchikam
jewellary is one of
the traditional
jewellary of the
people of gujarat
where instead of
gold, the metal
used in making of
this ornamental in
silver.

36. Jewellery of men
Earrings Anklet
Neck piece Bangle

37. Footwears
Hand stiched with cotton thread
by artisians from gujarat
Brown - white kutchi hand
embroidered leather chappal

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Name :- Anjali Jain-Surbhi Rungta