In Nanoor, a small village near Santiniketan, kantha embroidery was once a domestic practice shaped by reuse and necessity.

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 ...

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 ...

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- ...

For generations, heart and soul, many women in Chapainawabganj, as in some other parts of the country, have sewn nakshi kantha (embroidered quilt). More than just needlework, imbued in each design of ...

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.

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.

When she was 16, Shabnam Ramaswamy had an arranged marriage to a 32-year-old man. After a harrowing eight years of abuse, Shabnam, at 23, was thrown out of her house by her husband. For two months she ...