Lambani Embroidery Patches

• The Lambani Embroidery Exhibition held in Hampi created history on the first day of the G-20 Culture working group, achieving a remarkable Guinness World Record for the largest display of Lambani items.
• It has been named after the Lambani tribe.
• Features- It is an amalgam of pattern darning, mirror work, cross stitch, and overlaid and quilting stitches with borders of “Kangura” patchwork.
• It is done on loosely woven dark blue or red handloom base fabric.
• It received the status of Geographic Indication (GI) tag in 2010 from Karnataka.

ABOUT LAMBANI TRIBE

• They are also called Lambadis or Banjaras.
• They were once nomadic tribes who arrived from Afghanistan to India, mainly Rajasthan (in the Mewar region) and then spread themselves across the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
• They are believed to have assisted the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb to carry goods to the southern part of the country in the 17th century, and that is when some of them settled there.