- Measurements
- 31cm x 46.5cm
- Place of Origin
- Bangladesh
- Historical Period/Date
- 20th Century (1930-1969 Mid)
- Registration Number
- 2011-128
- Donated/Purchased
- Donated
- Techniques
- Flat Quilting,Kantha Embroidery,Quilting,Running Stitch,
- Objects
- Cloths,Household Textiles,Kanthas,
Physical Description
Small kantha quilted cream cloth. The cream background is silk, backed with a very loosely woven cotton. Worked in coloured silks with a design of two figures bearing a small shrine on a pole, plants, foliage and a bird, all enclosed in a border of four rows of running stitch in red and green. The background is stitched allover with rows of running stitch worked with a double silk thread in white.
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