Though you are still tired of shopping around boutiques, fashion and department stores in busy streets crowded with people, a brand new website has been created for the Chikan Clothes shopping online by Ada Designer Chikan Studio Lucknow. (www.AdaChikan.net) Chikankari has been practiced in Lucknow for almost more than two hundred years. But it did not originate in Lucknow. It flourished in the Mughal Court at Delhi in the 14th and 17th centuries. When the Mughal Court disintegrated the artisans scattered across the country. Same of them came and settled in Awadh. They brought this craft with them and gave it roots. The origins of chikan are shrouded in mystery and legend. Some historians opine, the chikan is a Persian craft, brought to the Mughal Court of the Emperor Jahangir by his beautiful and talented consort Mehrunissa. The queen was a talented embroiderer and she so pleased the king with this ethereal, white floral embroider that it was soon given recognition and royal patronage
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