When we start designing our saree blouses be it bridal blouses or just the other fancy ones or even regular ones the main points we think about it the neck pattern of the blouse, whether you need any embroidery on it and if so what kind and what style. Next comes the length of the sleeve or if you actually want sleeves in them. Least do we think about sleeve ends.
Even as we think sleeve ends we wonder what exactly it would be doing to our ultimate blouse design. Well, sleeve ends can make so much difference to a blouse design, simple or not.
Sleeve ends are how fancy you can make the end of the sleeve. Instead of the regular sleeve how about a different cut or maybe overlapped sleeves?? How about using two different colors for overlapped sleeves or adding some heavy stone or pearl work? They look very interesting. The easiest way to have fancy sleeve ends is to add some heavy embroidery and choose designs like a floral pattern or paisley patterns to make it overhang from the regular straight cut ends. The next alternative is to overlap two ends so as to form an inverted “V”. You can add embroidery on one piece of fabric or add some embellishments to the start of the inverted “V”.
These options will work equally well for a bridal blouse as well. Our favorite would be the arm band shaped sleeve ends which make it look like the bride is wearing a heavy traditional arm band, but in actual effect the sleeve ends are cut in that shape and intricate embroidery and maggam work is done.
You can also do a few subtle sleeve ends by trying scalloped ends or may be a slight tweak in shape and add a small tassel or a latkan. You can add a thin border of stone work along the ends to make it look evident. A heavy patch work when placed in the correct space also looks like an interesting sleeve end. It need not be large to create the desired effect.
These sleeve ends will surely make your blouses look attractive without doing much! Try it out and let us know how you liked it!!!
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