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Description: Malati Das displays cross-stitched kanthas on the rooftop of the Das family home...

TitleMalati Das displays cross-stitched kanthas on the rooftop of the Das family home (photographer's daughter sits on one in the foreground)

Creator nameGhosh, Pika

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican, born India

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date2007

Creation date (description)fall 2007

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsUnknown

LocationHazrapara, Bishnupur, Bankura District, West Bengal, India

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsDocumentary photographyKanthasBengali textile fabrics

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From Rags to Riches: Valuing Kanthas in Bengali Households

Pika Ghosh

Description: Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz...

Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

The literature on kanthas has drawn attention to the story of recycling rags, emphasizing the resourcefulness and creativity of Bengali women, particularly in rural contexts, in salvaging and reusing worn, threadbare, and patched fabrics to fashion a new product...

Author

Pika Ghosh

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.31-57

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00323.2

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22913&redirecttoanchor=82426

Chapter subject tags:KanthasStorytellingWomen, BengaliRites and ceremonies--IndiaFamilies--India

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