Nilupa Yasmin
'She continued to sew'
A kantha is an embroidered quilt made from scraps of cloth, intricately hand-stitched. Women in Bangladesh make kanthas for their families, to pass down and as a source of independent income. The British Raj attempted to abolish the Indian cotton trade in 1876, and later tried to police what was allowed to be stitched. This series traces the revival of the kantha in postcolonial India, through the eyes of 10 women from the tales of Rabindranath Tagore. Now these quilts become an emblem of togetherness for these women who, in different times, have immersed themselves physically into every drape and thread. Each of these women are walking their paths in life yet share a bond created through this everlasting running stitch.
Tarang Bharti • Laura Chen • Boris Dadvisard • Alessandra Di Ronza • Diogo Ferrari Santilli • Yige Huang • Carmen Li • Adrian Lloyd-Thomas • AJ Perez • Qi Ruoyu • Xiayi Su • Agata Winiarska • Nilupa Yasmin • Yi Zhu •
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