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Kantha used as bed for a baby. Kantha is a form of embroidery often practised by rural women. The traditional form of Kantha embroidery was done with soft dhotis and saris, with a simple running stitch along the edges. Depending on the use of the finished product they were known as Lepkantha or Sujni Kantha.
The motifs may include images of flowers and leaves, birds and fish, animals, kitchen items, and even toilet articles. While most kanthas have an initial pattern, no two nakshi kanthas are the same. Although traditional motifs are repeated, individual touches are evident in the variety of stitches, colours, and shapes.
English: Kantha (bed cover), West Bengal, eastern India, late 19th-early 20th century, cotton, plain weave, embroidery, Honolulu Museum of Art accession 3928.1 Date Taken in 2017
Modern Naksi kantha. Naksha is embroidery on many layers of cloth (like quilting), with running stitch. It is also known as dorukha which mean the designs/motifs are equally visible in both sides: there is no right or wrong side so both side are usable. Traditionally, worn out clothes and saris were piled together and stitched into quilts.
Traditional Nakshi Kantha of Bangladesh Embroidery sampler by Alice Maywood, 1826 Laid threads, a surface technique in wool on linen. The Bayeux Tapestry , 11th century Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn .
Baluchari saree - Mahabharat motif showing the Pandavas marrying Draupadi. [10] Baluchari saris, locally called Baluchori saris, today often have depictions from scenes of Mahabharat and Ramayana. During the Mughal and British eras, they had a square design in the pallu with paisley motifs in them. They depicted scenes from the lives of the ...
Toda embroidery, also locally known as "pukhoor", [1] is an art work among the Toda pastoral people of Nilgiris, in Tamil Nadu, made exclusively by their women. [1] The embroidery, which has a fine finish, appears like a woven cloth [2] but is made with use of red and black threads with a white cotton cloth background.
Kasuti (Kannada: ಕಸೂತಿ) is a traditional form of folk embroidery practised in the state of Karnataka, India. [1] Kasuti work which is very intricate sometimes involves putting up to 5,000 stitches by hand and is traditionally made on dresswear like Ilkal sarees, Ravike / Kuppasa(Khana) and Angi .