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The second campaign of embroidery in this small rectangular kantha demonstrates the heavier embroidery and wider variety of color that often characterize later kanthas

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Description: Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz...
The name kantha may be applied to a range of Bengali textiles that display a variety of techniques, functions, and designs. Some are plain while others are extensively embroidered. The most humble and utilitarian of these layered and quilted...
PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.139-154
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00323.6

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