Lucknow is also famous for Chikan.  Here he have a wide range of Lucknow Chikan Clothes just one mouse click. You would find a extensive collection of lucknow chikan clothes in cottons to georgettes types. Formal to daily use clothes. Chikan Work is a Cottage Industry. Chikan Work is Pure Handwork by skilled Weavers, however the embroidery will remain the same. We have the collection of Lucknow chikan clothes like, cotton saree with chikan embroidery, cotton chikan kurta, chikan work tops in cotton and chiffon, special chiffon part wears, mughal era chikankari work sarees etc.

Lucknow is the centre of chikan embroidery, renowned for its timeless grace and its gossamer delicacy. It is more than 200 years old and exploited, commercialis but not dead till today. In fact, the work is alive and struggling to regain its older beauty and elegance. Chikan embroidery is done on fine fabric like cotton, chiffon etc. The clothes are first stitched and then embroidered, whereas skirts, saris, first embroidered and then finished.

A study of the origin of chikan reveals that this form of embroidery had come to India from Persia with Noor Jehan, the queen of the Mughal Emperor Jehangir. The word chikan is a derivative from the Persian word 'chikaan' meaning drapery. Some, however, insist that the craft migrated from Bengal. What we know is that chikankari came to Oudh when Mughal power declined in Bengal and the artisans moved to the Oudh durbars, seeking employment and patronage.