from Jessore, Bangladesh
This white cotton quilt or 'kantha' worked in coloured cotton thread, dates to around 1900 and comes from Jessore in Bangladesh.
The white quilt is embroidered with cotton threads - red, blue, yellow, orange, black - using single, double running and satin stitches. The quilt depicts men and women in a harvest dance with animals bordering a cruciform chapat game board.
To provide the quilted background the ladies who traditionally worked these kanthas recycled old sari materials.
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