Despite having a profusion of excellent photographs of embroideries, The Shoemaker’s Stitch is not just a coffee table book about the chain stitch embroidery from Gujarat, known as “mochi bharat”. In the opening chapter of the book, she discloses the originators of this type of fine chain stitch embroidery were “mochis” or cobblers of Kutch. Shilpa Shah in her chapter, …
