Figure 6: This Kantha is depicting with peacocks and peacock shaped boat, Undivided Bengal, 19th century, Kramrisch Collection, PMA; Source: www.philamuseum.org
Figure7: Kantha (Embroidered Quilt), 19th century, depicted with horse, tiger, elephant, peacock Source: www.philamuseum.org
Figure 8: Various animal motifs like horse, elephants are embroidered on it. Detail of the corner of a kantha, Faridpur District, 2nd half of the 19th century, Kramrisch Collection, PMA; Source: www.philamuseum.org
Figure9: Kantha Depicting peacock motif, second half of 19th century, Source: www.philamuseum.org
Figure10: Kantha with steam transportation, ghat, mansion, and market, horse with rider, elephant with rider Undivided Bengal, late 19th to early 20th …show more content…
Product diversification based on desires and demands of contempory lifestyle plays a vital role in the expansion of kantha. For instance, there is apparently a superior demand for home furnishings like cushion covers and wearable textiles like saris and shawls. Ample considerations are made to confirm that only original kantha motifs and stitches are used in the new products.
Figure20: Pieces depicting animal and bird motifs; Source: Surajkund Mela, 2012, Faridabad
Figure21: Dupatta depicting bird motifs with kantha embroidery; Source: Dill Haat, INA
Figure 22: Suit depicting birds motifs; Source: Nature Bazar, 2013, New Delhi
Introduction-
Chamba has possibly one of the utmost attractive needle work tradition which actually revealed paintings with needle. According to Das (1992), “The chamba alignments give the impression as if ‘the whole world is full of movement’ in a ‘gay charming world of abandon’.” However, from the eighteenth century its fabrication became so plentiful that the geographic description ‘Chamba Rumal’ became equivalent with the embroidery of the complete area now forming the Himachal …show more content…
The other designs that are used with time are of mythological episodes, especially from the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, nayika (maiden), deer hunting, forest scenes with lots of trees and animals, Shiva-Parvati, Radha-Krishna, and the typically dressed Gaddi-Gaddan with lamb (shepherd couple) (Naik, 1996).
Some of the themes represented animals and birds like in Rukmini Harana elaboratately embroidered on rumal depicting the various ceremonial activities like Barat; the procession of marriage, including royal animals like saddled horse, elephants, drum beaters, musicians and so on. Though, these scenes were further emphasized and restored by use of various flowers, foliages, birds and fruits , may be within to fill the empty gaps or as borders. Also Raas mandal showing Krishna with gopis and deer and peacocks and other birds on empty spaces are embroidered.
Motifs, in this embroidery comprises of figurative animals like, leaping tigers, running goats, cantering horses, fleeting rams, wild boar, jumping deer, along with cows, calves, horses, elephants snakes. Birds’ motifs encompassed of peacock, parrot, cranes, partridges and sparrows used may be as symbolic or purely as decorative. Sometimes these motifs are used in single to fill up empty places. Single bird signified a sad lonely one waiting for the male, a couple symbolized mergers of two souls (Naik,
Figure7: Kantha (Embroidered Quilt), 19th century, depicted with horse, tiger, elephant, peacock Source: www.philamuseum.org
Figure 8: Various animal motifs like horse, elephants are embroidered on it. Detail of the corner of a kantha, Faridpur District, 2nd half of the 19th century, Kramrisch Collection, PMA; Source: www.philamuseum.org
Figure9: Kantha Depicting peacock motif, second half of 19th century, Source: www.philamuseum.org
Figure10: Kantha with steam transportation, ghat, mansion, and market, horse with rider, elephant with rider Undivided Bengal, late 19th to early 20th …show more content…
Product diversification based on desires and demands of contempory lifestyle plays a vital role in the expansion of kantha. For instance, there is apparently a superior demand for home furnishings like cushion covers and wearable textiles like saris and shawls. Ample considerations are made to confirm that only original kantha motifs and stitches are used in the new products.
Figure20: Pieces depicting animal and bird motifs; Source: Surajkund Mela, 2012, Faridabad
Figure21: Dupatta depicting bird motifs with kantha embroidery; Source: Dill Haat, INA
Figure 22: Suit depicting birds motifs; Source: Nature Bazar, 2013, New Delhi
Introduction-
Chamba has possibly one of the utmost attractive needle work tradition which actually revealed paintings with needle. According to Das (1992), “The chamba alignments give the impression as if ‘the whole world is full of movement’ in a ‘gay charming world of abandon’.” However, from the eighteenth century its fabrication became so plentiful that the geographic description ‘Chamba Rumal’ became equivalent with the embroidery of the complete area now forming the Himachal …show more content…
The other designs that are used with time are of mythological episodes, especially from the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, nayika (maiden), deer hunting, forest scenes with lots of trees and animals, Shiva-Parvati, Radha-Krishna, and the typically dressed Gaddi-Gaddan with lamb (shepherd couple) (Naik, 1996).
Some of the themes represented animals and birds like in Rukmini Harana elaboratately embroidered on rumal depicting the various ceremonial activities like Barat; the procession of marriage, including royal animals like saddled horse, elephants, drum beaters, musicians and so on. Though, these scenes were further emphasized and restored by use of various flowers, foliages, birds and fruits , may be within to fill the empty gaps or as borders. Also Raas mandal showing Krishna with gopis and deer and peacocks and other birds on empty spaces are embroidered.
Motifs, in this embroidery comprises of figurative animals like, leaping tigers, running goats, cantering horses, fleeting rams, wild boar, jumping deer, along with cows, calves, horses, elephants snakes. Birds’ motifs encompassed of peacock, parrot, cranes, partridges and sparrows used may be as symbolic or purely as decorative. Sometimes these motifs are used in single to fill up empty places. Single bird signified a sad lonely one waiting for the male, a couple symbolized mergers of two souls (Naik,