From the archive record
Woman working on her embroidery. Embroidery is one of the age old traditional arts of Gujarat and has been practiced since time immemorial. The most spectacular textile based handicraft of Gujarat is needlework or embroidery, a chief source of living for thousands of artisans in the state. It represents the Gujarati tradition, in particular the aura of festivity and joy.This kind of embroidery is most commonly found in clothes, wall hanging items etc. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of 50, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, HDV and XDCAM. Wr