Anamika Embroidery

Our place, Anamika Embroidery, is tucked away in Mohan Garden Extension, right across from Sharda School. If you know Uttam Nagar, you know how busy it gets, especially when the kids are heading home and the rickshaws are everywhere. We’ve been operating out of A-45 for a bit. Inside, it’s mostly the sound of needles and thread. We do a lot of different patterns, mostly on fabric that people bring in or stuff we’ve sourced. The lighting in the shop could be better, but we make do with what we have. It’s a bit cramped with all the rolls of cloth and the different colored threads hanging on the walls. We usually start early in the morning before the noise of the street really picks up. My hands are usually stained with some kind of dye or just tired from handling the materials all day. We don't have a big corporate setup. It's just us working on the machines and checking the stitches. Sometimes we have to stay late to finish a batch when a customer is in a hurry. It’s not always easy, and sometimes the machines act up right when we have a lot to do. We just fix them and keep going. The neighborhood knows us, and we know the neighborhood. It’s a simple living, focused on getting the embroidery right and making sure we don't run out of supplies in the middle of a job. We just keep going one day at a time.