Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal by Pika Ghosh

Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal

Global South Asia

Pika Ghosh

284 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art gender history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, c...

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