Quilt

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:	0504: National Museums Scotland Part 2 Project description \| View all records in project
Ref:	National Museums Scotland A.1982.336
Date:	Around 1900 c. 1900
Material:	White cotton embroidered with different coloured cotton threads
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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