Beautiful Blouse by Maggam Work
Embroidery is an art form that enhances the beauty of any dress, especially the top piece of an Indian woman's blouse. When this work was done while using a specially designed hooked needle. Though these needles appear like crochet needles but with improved quality level of a fine job. Women can depend on this artistry for intricate, and vibrant designs like that of peacocks, flowers, parrots, mirror work and various traditional patterns that will make blouses look every so grand.
Training for Embroidery Job Work
Maggam work is not just turning and twisting the needle with coloured threads. One must undergo training for a certain period to learn the art. Senior artisans at Hyderabad would train the persons while charging approximately Rs 3,000 and for a period of two weeks and can be extended as per the interest of the candidate and his interest over the art form. Enthusiastic persons nowadays can also learn while watching You Tube videos.
Jobs in Maggam Works
There are several positions available in this sector. They are designer, worker, hand embroidery worker and zardori designer. Payments will be on weekly mode ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 20,000 depending on the respective skill-set of the individual regarding output and intricacy of the skills. The average output production in terms of number of blouses mainly varies from 2 to 5 per day by a worker, if he takes up his job carefully.
Required Equipment for Making
Like in any other art forms certain equipment and instruments are needed for completing artistic work on fabric in the shape of blouse or any other dress. Work stand ranges from 16 inches to 18 inches for fixing the fabric, needles and comes along with a kit of 75 items including zari threads and rings.
Pricing of Embroidery Blouse
As the look of a princess appears after wearing blouses and sometimes along with lehangas, the cost to be borne by an individual for purchasing one piece of embroidery blouse from Maggam Works starts at Rs 2,00 goes up to Rs 25,000 but the sales is more in above Rs 10,000 price band.
MAGGAM DESIGN
Maggam work or aari embroidery is one of the most popular and preferred embroidery art forms in the contemporary fashion scenario. Maggam is also an ancient style of embroidery. It is said to have emerged in 12th century India and was worn by the early glorious Mughal rulers. Since then it has spread all over the country, especially in South India.
Aari work or maggam work is a type of embroidery which is done on a stretched fabric and stitching the design with a long needle that has a hook in the end. The needle is named as Aari, from which the embroidery work derives its name as Aari work.
Maggam works are now the in-thing in the world of fashion as they give an amazing look to any garment. Maggam's work Embroidery adds frequency to piece of cloth with a tremendous look. Be it a sari, blouse or Langa, blouse, extra maggam work can make it look very attractive and beautiful.
The designing of muggam work at least take about eight hours to put up a simple design and two to three days to do maggam work on a bridal blouse. The price for the maggam work differs from design to design and the effort put into that design by the worker.
Learning Aari Embroidery / Maggam work is very useful for those who want to make money from home. There are some programs which are launched by governments and private organisations in order to provide self-employment to women\men through maggam work. There are some also online websites which provide free of cost online classes to teach maggam work.