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03499aam a2200445 i 4500 001 DE731500EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 190916s2020 waua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019038426 020 $a 0295746998 020 $a 9780295746999 035 $a (OCoLC)1120784968 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d YDX $d YUS $d BDF $d OCLCO $d AAA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a NK9276.A1 $b G46 2020 082 00 $a 746.44 $2 23 100 1 $a Ghosh, Pika, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a Making kantha, making home : $b women at work in colonial Bengal / $c Pika Ghosh. 264 1 $a Seattle : $b University of Washington Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xv, 264 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 27 cm. 490 1 $a Global South Asia 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Through richly sensual visual and narrative treatments of textiles, their makers, and their users, Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds created by Bengali kantha that survive from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The first study of colonial-period women's embroidery to situate these objects historically and socially, it brings technique and aesthetic choices into discussion with iconography and regional culture. Kantha typically are created from layers of recycled, soft fabric that are strengthened with running stitches and then further embroidered with colored threads. They have commonly been understood as the work of women, created for domestic use as shawls, bedcovers, seating mats, and infant swaddling blankets. Through examination of individual objects and the people and stories behind their creation, the book elevates kantha beyond consideration as mere handcraft to recognition as art. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, inscriptions, and images, it situates embroiderers' work within domestic networks, entangled with memories, perceptions, sensorial resonance, and emotional experience. The textiles testify to the visual literacy and sophisticated mechanisms whereby skills were transmitted among embroiderers. Particular relationships with imagery in other media such as poetry, drama, prints, and watercolors testify to their access to a shared visual and social vocabulary, as well as affinity with older textile practices, including the region's lucrative maritime trade in embroideries"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Layers, Thickness, and Resonance: Making Home, Making Whole -- ch. 2 Manadasundari's Gift: Worlds in the Household -- ch. 3 Kamala's Mandala: A Space of One's Own. 650 0 $a Kanthas $x History. 650 0 $a Kanthas $x Themes, motives. 650 0 $a Kanthas $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Art, Bengali. 650 0 $a Art and literature. 650 7 $a Art and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00815400 650 7 $a Art, Bengali. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00816017 650 7 $a Kanthas. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01748808 650 7 $0 (FrPBN)11949506 $a Art textile $0 (FrPBN)11949506 $z Bengale. $2 ram 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Ghosh, Pika, $t Making kantha, making home $b 1st. $d Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2020. $z 9780295747002 $w (DLC) 2019038427 830 0 $a Global South Asia. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031620.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DE731500EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search