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Lucknow, India

Not every poem
is written in ink.

Some are written in thread, by hand, in Lucknow. Each piece stays on the frame for as long as its detail asks, and is made to be kept.

Stitch detail from Dastaan

The hand

Crafted slowly, kept forever.

Every piece is embroidered by hand, by karigars in Lucknow and the villages around it. Fifteen days on the frame, or three months. Nothing about it is hurried, because nothing about it can be.

Close enough to count the thread.

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The house

Poetry, stitched by hand.

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