Adeni Mohiuddin
Plate 00 — ivory sherwani
A garment is decided on the inside, long before anyone sees it.
Four decades at the cutting table: zardozi frames in Hyderabad and Lahore, pattern rooms in Florence and Paris, and now a private atelier in the Greater Toronto Area that takes commissions across Canada.
Forty years
behind the cut.
Seven garments,
read from the inside.
Each piece below is filed the way the atelier files it: by cloth, by weight and by the construction that holds it up. Open a plate for the full dossier.
Principles
Heritage enters the work as structure first and ornament second.
Zardozi, embroidery in metallic bullion wire, began as engineering as much as decoration: a metal-weighted hem that falls straight, a collar stiffened by padded thread. He uses it on those terms, sparingly, where a garment needs weight or edge, and never to cover a surface. The European draft supplies the proportion; the cloth decides the rest.
Warp holds. Weft gives. The bias is where the two negotiate.
Six layers between cloth and body.
A jacket chest seen in section. None of it is fused. Each layer is cut on its own grain and joined by hand, which is why the front holds a curve after years of wear instead of bubbling at the first cleaning.
Section · left forepart at chest line · outside to inside
Learned by hand,
in three places.
Each period left a technique the next one could not have supplied.
Begin with a conversation.
Commissions start at the atelier table, with cloth in hand and nothing yet cut. Telephone or write to arrange a first meeting.
Made by hand · Greater Toronto Area, Ontario
Commissions across Canada