15/09/2026
Punjab's relationship with handloom runs deep — there's a particular kind of magic in the narrow lanes of Katra Jaimal Singh in Amritsar, and Sirhindi Bazaar in Patiala — stalls spilling colour onto the street, cloth stacked shoulder-high, and if you're lucky, a doorway where a woman sits quietly working a needle through cloth, counting threads by feel, never once tracing the pattern first. This is Phulkari — Punjab's "floral work" — traditionally embroidered onto a shawl or dupatta, and stitched this way, by hand, since at least the 15th century.
Traditionally, a phulkari was started the day a girl was born into a family, worked on slowly across years, and finally gifted to her on her own wedding day. Every thread, every knot, carried a lifetime inside it.
Look up, and you'll find it here too — woven into the umbrellas above your table. A little piece of Punjab's lanes, carried all the way to Chichester.
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