Hand Embroidered Kantha Fine Dancing Women Coverlet Queen India

Fine hand embroidered works by the West Bengal (Kolkata, India) artists who produce a form of stitched story telling known as 'West Bengal kantha,’ one of the oldest forms of embroidery in India. They are a fair trade group whose lineage goes back to Mother Teresa who helped them organize after a deadly exodus from the former war-torn East Pakistan. Today, the grand daughters of the original artist continue their stitched traditions producing some of the finest work we’ve seen.

This piece is based on a reproduction of a historic W Bengal Kantha depicting dancing women, birds, flowers and pinwheels organized around a central mandala.  Hand stitched embroidery on white cotton ground cloth. The detail in the embroidery is stunning!

Five layers of lightweight white cotton are stitched together with patterns of white stitches. Colors: dark sand, sage, evergreen, light tan, dusty rose, burgundy-brick red. The background is quilted with thousands of tiny hand stitches and the quilt is signed by the three women who created it.

Sasha Embroidery Cooperative Embroidery

Meet the women of Sasha Embroidery Cooperative from West Bengal. They carry on a tradition of embroidered story-telling, called kantha, said to be the oldest form of embroidery in India. They are a fair trade group whose lineage goes back to Mother Teresa who helped them organize after a deadly exodus from the former war-torn East Pakistan. Today, the grand daughters of the original artist continue their stitched traditions producing some of the finest work we’ve seen.