A type of embroidery technique using gold or silver thread, particularly associated with Indian and ornamental textile work.
Derived from Hindi and Urdu 'bunnai' or similar South Asian textile terminology, referring to traditional gold thread embroidery work that became known through colonial trade with India.
Bonnaz embroidery is the fancy gold-thread technique you see on Indian wedding clothes and fancy garments—the word comes straight from South Asian textile tradition and shows how English borrowed fashion vocabulary from cultures it encountered!
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