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

by Pika Ghosh

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, covers, and seating mats.

Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds shaped by the Bengali kantha that survive from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the first study...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295746998
• ISBN13: 9780295746999
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher