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 ...

When Rukmini boarded the flight to Delhi from Kolkata, it was the first time she had ever travelled to Delhi. It was her first flight, and only the second city she had seen outside her village.

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.

New Delhi: Kantha stitch artist Tripti Mukherjee, known for preserving and promoting the traditional embroidery craft of West Bengal while empowering rural women artisans, will be conferred the Padma ...

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.

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 kantha motifs are drawn from everyday life and include representations of folk tales, epics, mythological figures, animals, fish, plants, and ceremonial themes. Last year, Mahua Lahiri was the ...

There is not a single household in Bangladesh that does not know of the Nakshi Kantha. Every newborn has his own 'Kantha' (quilt) – even if not the 'Nakshi' variant, but one possibly made by a close ...

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 ...