It is not always easy to remember these days that the kantha was once a homely piece of cloth embroidered by a woman for a newborn, or her family, a personal, intimate expression of her love, memories ...

A kantha is a great example of how you can upcycle your old clothes into something beautiful and functional. A handmade quilt, kantha is a long piece of cloth made of old rags - mostly old sarees - ...

Saju in the renowned poet, Jasimuddin’s Nakshi Kanthar Math (1929), weaves through intricate tales of her life as she languishes in separation from her husband. Long before, the poet had popularized ...

The origin of Kantha is unknown but the art flourished in Bengal and Bangladesh over the last 500 years. Kolkata: The simple running stitch most of us learnt at school is making waves in Kolkata.

The thousand-year-old upcycling handicraft was traditionally a canvas for ordinary women to tell their stories and express their fears and hopes. Now it's hugely popular again, writes Kalpana Sunder.

Come winter, the quilting tradition of South Asia comes into the limelight and a significant aspect of that is the Kantha tradition. Traditionally, the word Kantha refers to a specific type of quilt- ...

Born in Kolkata in 1945, Anita’s roots go back to Karnapur village in Khulna. At the age of nine, she was admitted to Patha Bhawan in Santiniketan, where she was introduced to the artistic ethos of ...

Winters in Bangladesh are very cold. Families with little means could not afford blankets to keep warm. One day, a group of women cut their old saris to size and placed one length of cloth above the ...

Thanks to the efforts of revivalists, Kantha caught fashion designers’ imagination and that of the people. But there exists a similar form of quilting technique from Bihar, which despite its beauty is ...