Jaideep Singh

Lucknow Chikan House

Lucknow was and is the centre of chikan embroidery, renowned for its timeless grace and its gossamer delicacy, a skill more than 200 years old --- exploited, commercialised but not dead. In fact, the craft is alive and has its own beauty and elegance. Thanks to the women in and around Lucknow who are performing this laborious task for the sake of people who love to wear chicken embroidery. Incorporated in 2001, Lucknow Chikan House works with independent centers for the benefits of these women workers. We also have association with NGO's who are working to enhance this hand embroidery art by helping and training the weaker section of women in villages around Lucknow. Further this hand embroidery has been given fantastic styles and designs on various garments. We at Lucknow Chikan House understand the various stitches and the quality of embroidery for our customers. We offer you the finely crafted apparels and home textile items crafted by the skilled craftsmen at most reasonable prices to give a graceful and elegant look to anyone who wears it. In apparels our customers can select from a range of chikan garments mainly women's wear, men's wear and kids wear. Lucknow is famous for its small-scale industries that are based on unique styles of embroidery, namely, Chikan Lakhnawi Zardozi, both of which are significant foreign exchange earners. Chikan has caught the fancy of fashion designers in bollywood and abroad.