Made of used saris held together by running stitches, a kantha's soft touch, its smell, its ageing material and its patterns came with the feel almost of a mother's body. Visitors at the Eye of the ...

Kantha is also known as sujani, the word for stitch or a needle, and is related to suzani embroidery of Central Asia. The patterns often symbolised the affection for loved ones of the maker ...

The stitch often gives an impression of waves." Daily life inspired Kantha embroidery, which often showcases nature such as the sun, the tree of life, oceans, animals and the cosmic universe.

Kantha embroidery from the house of POTT-POURRI ... other daily utility items and doing small decorative work with the stitches, and inspired many designers to work with the same." ...

The company's Kantha silk sarees showcase the refined style of detailed embroidery that originates from the eastern regions of India. In addition to their new Patola and Kantha silk sarees ...

Kantha, an old ingenious art form ... needs to use their bare hands to weave the intricate stitches. Farah Khan, reviver of Katha embroidery from rural Bengal, says, “This art-form would have ...

Nakshi Kantha is a traditional craft of embroidery of undivided Bengal ... it is slightly different from the original kantha stitch. A quilt has layers of cotton inside but kantha has layers ...

The roots of nakshi kantha could be traced back to the medieval past of Bengal. The art form developed as a means to recycle rags or clothes. Women used running stitches to hold onto the layered ...

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Interim Budget 2024 on February 1 wearing a blue kantha stitch sari. The intricate details on the leaf-pattern sari upheld one of the oldest ...