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Author : Śīlā Basāka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788121208994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Nakshi Kantha of Bengal written by Śīlā Basāka and published by . This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on "Kantha" embroidery of West Bengal, India and Bangladesh..
Author : Niaz Zaman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789845061032
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Art of Kantha Embroidery written by Niaz Zaman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Perveen Ahmad
Publisher : Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Aesthetics & Vocabulary of Nakshi Kantha written by Perveen Ahmad and published by Museum. This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Niaz Zaman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Art of Kantha Embroidery written by Niaz Zaman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sukla Das
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170172642
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (726 download)
Download or read book Fabric Art written by Sukla Das and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of All The Indian Handicrafts, Textiles Form A Class By Themselves Over Which The Rest Of The World Went Into Ecstasies From Time Immemorial.With An Enormous Store Of Myths, Symbols, Imagery And Inspiration From Other Art Forms Indian Textile-Craft Never Faced A Slump Or Stagnation. On The Other Hand It Transcended From A Craft Identity To The Status Of An Art.With Shades Of Classicism, Folk Tradition And Regional Flavour The Rich And Unrivalled Fabrics Of India Have Rightly Been Called Exquisite Poetry In Colour .Indian Fabric Art Can Be Classified Into Three Broad Categories Woven, Painted Or Printed And Embroidered. Within This Broad Outline The Present Study Pinpoints The Historical Background Of Some Representative Forms Each Unique In Its Distinctiveness.A Search For Any Linkage With Allied Art Forms As Well As Their Socio-Cultural Significance Also Provides A New Perspective.Though Apparently Widely Dispersed In Contents, They Form A Composite Tapestry Of Indian Fabric Art Tradition And Call For More Scrutiny Before Our Precious Heirlooms Are Totally Submerged In The Tide Of The Synthetic Era. The Book Is Enriched By Illustrations Of Rare Specimens Of Historical Art Fabrics Collected From Different Museums In The Country. Coupled With Extensive References This Volume Spotlights A New Facet Of Indian Art Heritage Which Will Fascinate Both The Social Scientists As Well As The Connoisseurs Of Indian Art And Culture.
Author : Asif Shaikh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788173054761
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Resurgence written by Asif Shaikh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pika Ghosh
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295747005
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Making Kantha, Making Home written by Pika Ghosh and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of colonial-period women’s embroidery that situates these objects historically and socially, Pika Ghosh brings technique and aesthetic choices into discussion with iconography and regional culture. Ghosh uses ethnographic and archival research, inscriptions, and images to locate embroiderers’ work within domestic networks and to show how imagery from poetry, drama, prints, and watercolors expresses kantha artists’ visual literacy. Affinities with older textile practices include the region’s lucrative maritime trade in embroideries with Europe, Africa, and China. This appraisal of individual objects alongside the people and stories behind the objects’ creation elevates kantha beyond consideration as mere handcraft to recognition as art.
Author : Paola Manfredi
Publisher : Niyogi Books
ISBN 13 : 9789385285530
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Chikankari written by Paola Manfredi and published by Niyogi Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chikankari is one of the finest traditional embroideries of India, a symbol of Lucknawi culture and elegant courts of the nawabs of Awadh. Chikankari appeared in Lucknow in the late 18th century and its exquisite aesthetic and craftsmanship has sustained the tradition to this day, through changing patronage and market trends. Chikankari is not just about embroidery. Its legendary finesse is based on a creative blend of the delicate embroidery with very fine dressmaking and sewing techniques. This beautifully illustrated book showcases unknown gems from personal and public collections, and brings to life the history of this unique craft tradition. The various chapters describe the mysterious origins of the craft, the range of costumes, the inspirations behind it motifs, the time-honoured elaborate production process, and the bewildering array of stitches that raised this craft to a truly exceptional art form.
Author : Darielle Mason
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kantha written by Darielle Mason and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length study on kanthas published outside of South Asia focuses on two premier collections, one assembled by the legendary historian of Indian art, Dr. Stella Kramrisch, the other by Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, leading proponents of self-taught art. Created from worn-out garments imaginatively embroidered by women with motifs and tales drawn from a rich regional repertoire, kanthas traditionally were stitched as gifts for births, weddings, and other family occasions. Innovative essays by leading scholars explore the domestic, ritual, and historical contexts of the fascinating quilts in these collections--made between the mid-19th and mid-20th century in what is today Bangladesh and West Bengal, India--and trace their reinterpretation as emblems of national identity and works of art.
Author : Shyamal Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Sylvan fragrance written by Shyamal Mukhopadhyay and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a rare jugalbandi of a father and a daughter. It is a compilation of their poems depicting varied moods, emotions and genre- a creative fusion which would surely appeal to the discerning readers. Intruded by passion into the creative space of literature, a banker by profession, the author simultaneously writes in Bengali and English. His work has been published in several anthologies and publications-national and international. He also writes short stories and articles sparingly. Believing in ‘bangaliyana’ and social values interspersed in his poems, blogs and writings, he was born in Bengal, studied economics and is now settled in Nagpur. Blog: shyamalmukhopadhay.wordpress.com
Author : Poulomi Saha
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549644
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book An Empire of Touch written by Poulomi Saha and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives of numerous garment workers, mostly young women. The contemporary garment industry—and the labor organizing pushing back—draws on a long history of gendered labor division and exploitation in East Bengal, the historical antecedent of Bangladesh. Yet despite the centrality of women’s labor to anticolonial protest and postcolonial state-building, historiography has struggled with what appears to be its absence from the archive. Poulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women’s political labor in East Bengal over more than a century, one that suggests new ways to think about textiles and the gendered labors of their making. An Empire of Touch argues that women have articulated—in writing, in political action, in stitching—their own desires in their own terms. They produce narratives beyond women’s empowerment and independence as global and national projects; they refuse critical pronouncements of their own subjugation. Saha follows the historical traces of how women have claimed their own labor, contending that their political commitments are captured in the material objects of their manufacture. Her analysis of the production of historical memory through and by the bodies of women spans British colonialism and American empire, anticolonial nationalism to neoliberal globalization, depicting East Bengal between development economics and postcolonial studies. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire.
Author : Semantī Ghosha
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199468232
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Different Nationalisms written by Semantī Ghosha and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Tufts University, 1999.
Author : Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000205819
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book India, Sri Lanka and the SAARC Region written by Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the historical and socio-cultural connections across the SAARC region, with a special focus on the relationship between India and Sri Lanka. It investigates hitherto unexplored narratives of history, popular culture and intangible heritage in the region to identify the cultural parallels and intersections that link them together. In doing so, the volume moves away from an organised and authorised heritage discourse and encourages possibilities of new understandings and re-interpretations of cross-cultural communication and its sub-texts. Based on original ethnographic work, the book discusses themes such as cultural ties between India and Sri Lanka, exchanges between Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka and Satyajit Ray in India, cultural connectivity reflected through mythology and folklore, the influence of Rabindranath Tagore on modern dance in Sri Lanka, the introduction of railways in Sri Lanka, narrative scrolls and masked dance forms across SAARC countries, Hindi cinema as the pioneer of cultural connectivity, and women’s writing across South Asia. Lucid and compelling, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, South Asian studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, popular culture, cross-cultural communication, gender studies, political sociology, cultural history, diplomacy, international relations and heritage studies. It will also appeal to general readers interested in the linkages between India and Sri Lanka.
Author : Ekta Kaul
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789940915
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Kantha written by Ekta Kaul and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful book on the tradition of kantha, a Bengali embroidery technique with a rich heritage rooted in storytelling and upcycling, with inspiration and techniques for contemporary makers. The word 'kantha' refers to both the style of running stitch, as well as the finished cloth: quilted textiles made from multiple layers of cast-off cloth, traditionally embroidered with threads pulled out from the borders of old saris and dhotis. These beautiful fabrics were created exclusively by women in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. In this richly illustrated book, textile artist Ekta Kaul explores the history of the kantha tradition and finds objects of extraordinary beauty. She goes on to look at how the kantha spirit is inspiring artists today and discusses creative techniques to help you develop your own interpretations, alongside a dictionary of fundamental kantha stitches with supporting images and instructions. Steeped in the ethos of sustainability, emotional repair and mindful making, kantha will lead you to uncover a slower and more thoughtful approach to stitching.
Author : Gopen Roy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nakshi Kantha written by Gopen Roy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional art of Bengal on needlework for quilting; includes some reproductions of designs.
Author : Krishna Lal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kantha written by Krishna Lal and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Hergert
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764353574
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Inspiration Kantha written by Anna Hergert and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This guide leads you through the layering of fabrics, the choices of imagery, and the stitching itself. There are handy motif patterns, instructions on how to begin a personal kantha reference library, and more. Both simple and complex projects help you get started, whether you're a beginner or an expert stitcher. A colorful gallery of kantha work is included to inspire you."--Back cover.
