others stitches

Mohra means pearl (glass or wooden pearl) and dusi refers to embroidery; mohradusi means pearl embroidery. It involves the coral stitch, a type of double knot. The embroidery is relief-like, rustic, firm, and offers few design possibilities.

Awak means chain, Awakdusi means chain stitch. It is mostly used to emphasize contours with a contrasting color. Only a few women fill entire areas with it.

Soraya’s square shows the following:

the star-shaped embroidery in the middle is called Ashtbargdusi (asht = 8, barg = leaf), 8 circles edged in red are embroidered in Panerakdusi (Panerak = cheese), then 2 fields each in pink and white in Tsheshmakdusi, they are arranged symmetrically. The embroidery on the corners is called Shorpestadusi (pesta = pistachios, shorpesta = salted pistachios).

Anila’s square presents a repetition of an element of Kandahariduri, a very traditional form of embroidery that is systematically found as a border in tshaderi. The green branch is executed in Tshalipadusi, cross-stitch embroidery.

Zarifa’s square is an excellent example of Panerakekhondor, with a border or edging in sehoha (triple stitches, then offset).

Sarita’s two squares show us the Dandaneara (dandan = tooth, ara = saw), embroidery with saw teeth, once in large and once in small, as well as sehoha (triple stitches) and Dandaneshana (shana = the comb) with the blue/pink frame.

Finally, Frozan’s sampler shows us: with the 1st pattern, the Dandaneshana (comb embroidery), with the 2nd pattern, Kheshtakator (khest = the bricks), with the 3rd pattern, Tokhmak (tokh = egg, egg embroidery), and with the 4th pattern, Moitshadusi.