Jammu & Kashmir's Sozni embroidery

Kani Sozni is described as a technique of meticulously fine embroidery layered to make the fabric look encrusted like a tapestry.

The painstaking and highly skilled work of weaving made the Kashmir shawl world famous. Unique to the Kashmiri shawl was its woven tapestry-like design, which was produced with the use of the kani, a small bobbin carrying coloured yarn, in place of the shuttle for the weft thread. Two or three weavers, sitting together at the loom, would use multiple kanis, interlacing the coloured weft threads through the warp ends to produce intricate patterns according to the instructions given by an ustad or the master weaver.

Featured in this short film are Shabir Ali Beigh (1976-2017) and family.