In ‘petit point’, a circle of color is created around every spot where the needle pierces the fabric, which is stretched on an embroidery frame, to produce a perceptible aperture. A woman’s power of imagination, search for beauty, and mysterious inner world could spin incredible fantasies, as if the flowers of happiness in the garden of her heart had bloomed in color on her trousseau collection. Undergarments, outer garments, bridal veils, towels, napkins and handkerchiefs—she adorned them all with embroidery. And so the trousseau, ‘skill of the hand, light of the eye’, that has been years in the making is finally presented to the public in a magnificent display.

A 40-DAY EXHIBITION
Starting at age five or six, girls were instructed in all the branches of women’s handicrafts, a social tradition still valued today. Their teachers were their mothers or other women in the household and community.