Long before it entered galleries or design studios, kantha lived in the rhythms of everyday life. In homes across Bengal, ...

What began with a visit to a crafts mela and three silk saris has, over 37 years, reshaped the trajectory of a simple running ...

The Bangladesh Cancer Aid Trust (BANCAT) has taken a unique initiative that connects tradition, sustainability, and compassion. Their project, Alok Kantha, revives the cherished craft of ...

Designer Amit Vijaya’s exhibition ‘Threads that Bind’ in Delhi traces the origins of Bengal’s kantha embroidery, showing how worn sarees and fabrics were layered, stitched and preserved as heritage te ...

A Delhi exhibition examines why a craft’s evolution matters as much as its survival ...

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- ...

At first glance, the textiles in the ‘Threads that Bind’ exhibition look like art pieces meant for the wall—vivid surfaces of stitched colour and layered fabrics, with lines that seem almost painterly ...