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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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• Online ID: 000-180-000-570-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland Part 2
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  A.1982.336
• Date: Around 1900
  c. 1900
  
• Material: White cotton embroidered with different coloured cotton threads
  Quilt / Kantha
  
• Dimensions: 1860 mm L x 1200 mm W
  
• What: Quilt / Kantha
  
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• Where: Bangladesh, Jessore
  
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• Description: White cotton quilt or 'kantha' worked in coloured cotton threads with a design of men and women in a harvest dance with animals bordering a cruciform chapat game board: Bangladesh, Jessore, c. 1900
  
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