Kasuti-embroidered Dharwar Cotton Saree Kasuti embroidery is a form of generally-reversible embroidery which is native to the Dharwar region of Karnataka. The embroidery is traditionally executed by counting the threads of the warp and the weft, without the designs being outlined on to the fabric, and is believed to have developed during the time of the Chalukya dynasty between the 6 th and 12 th centuries. The origins of Kasuti embroidery are far from clear though. Similar embroidery appears to have been executed in Egypt from where it may have spread both to Western Europe and to India in the East. Within India, Kasuti could be considered to be a variant of Kashida embroidery seen in the country's North; it may have come to Karnataka through the Lambini tribe which is believed to have migrated to Karnataka via Gujarat from Rajasthan. There are four kinds of stitches which are generally used in Kasuti embroidery: (1) Gavanthi or Gaunti which is a running stitch rat...