{"product_id":"making-kantha-making-home-pika-ghosh-9780295746999","title":"Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Kantha, Making Home\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGhosh 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pika Ghosh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295746998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295746999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.30h x 7.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Pika Ghosh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941233000703,"sku":"9780295746999","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_6c99decf-5456-40b8-a6f3-e1ba2d63dfc5.jpg?v=1681451705","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-kantha-making-home-pika-ghosh-9780295746999","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}