• embroidery • All the Dowry items are embroidered in floss silk or cotton, almost almost embellished with abla (mirrorwork) and couched threads. patterns are floral or geometric. Its influenced by the ancient Islamic (the Arab Sind in ad 712), motifs are rarely figurative. This embroidered cover of the meher pastoralists, upper Sind. The meher are probably the finest domestic embroiderers in the whole of the subcontinent.