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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Textile and Apparel Designing × Author: Saini, Neelam × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2010 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Revival of Phulkari Embroidery for contemporary use
    (CCSHAU, 2013) Saini, Neelam; Khambra, Krishna
    The study was conducted for Revival of Phulkari EmbroideryDesignsfor contemporary useon kurti. Motifs of Phulkari embroidery were collected from Hisar and Patiala markets and categorized according to their categories i.e. geometrical, floral and animal. Maximum no. of motifs were used for contemporary use were geometrical, floral and animal, but human figure were less used. From collected motifs forty five motifs were selected. These were collected from secondary sources. Out of forty five motifs only fifteen were selected to developstylized designs for kurtis, each were converted into two designs. Then total thirty designs were developed with the help of Coral Draw. Five top ranked designs were selected. Three placements of each designs were developed. Then top five ranked placements of each selected designs was worked in Phulkari embroidery for making kurtis. Finally five kurtiswere developed. The opinion of experts was sought the most favourable about the developed designs, placements, size, shape, colour combination. Fifteen days training on Phulkari embroidery was imparted to the rural women of two villages of Hisar district and knowledge acquisition was studied regarding technique used which was found very effective as there was significant gain in knowledge on various aspects of Phulkari embroidery at 5 per cent and 1 per cent level of significance.
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    ThesisItemOpen Access
    Revival of Phulkari Embroidery for contemporary use
    (CCSHAU, 2013) Saini, Neelam; Khambra, Krishna
    The study was conducted for Revival of Phulkari EmbroideryDesignsfor contemporary useon kurti. Motifs of Phulkari embroidery were collected from Hisar and Patiala markets and categorized according to their categories i.e. geometrical, floral and animal. Maximum no. of motifs were used for contemporary use were geometrical, floral and animal, but human figure were less used. From collected motifs forty five motifs were selected. These were collected from secondary sources. Out of forty five motifs only fifteen were selected to developstylized designs for kurtis, each were converted into two designs. Then total thirty designs were developed with the help of Coral Draw. Five top ranked designs were selected. Three placements of each designs were developed. Then top five ranked placements of each selected designs was worked in Phulkari embroidery for making kurtis. Finally five kurtiswere developed. The opinion of experts was sought the most favourable about the developed designs, placements, size, shape, colour combination. Fifteen days training on Phulkari embroidery was imparted to the rural women of two villages of Hisar district and knowledge acquisition was studied regarding technique used which was found very effective as there was significant gain in knowledge on various aspects of Phulkari embroidery at 5 per cent and 1 per cent level of significance.