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Detail of 'Recycle' by Surjeet Husain
Detail of 'Recycle' by Surjeet Husain
Detail of 'Recycle' by Surjeet Husain
ON-LINE COURSE
This will be an on-line course with an introductory session on 31 October 2024, and 4 teaching sessions on 7/14/21/28 November 2024 starting at 2.30pm
PLEASE NOTE that there will be a final session to share your completed pieces of work on with one another on 9 January 2025.
Sessions will last approximately 2 hours, and the Introductory Session and Final Session will last approximately 1 hour.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Come and explore how a floor plan of your house or favourite rooms could inspire a contemporary take on kantha, and how the simple outlines of household objects, furniture, people, animals and decorative border patterns can be included.
Kantha is a Bangladeshi word for cloth, and a particular way of making embroidered quilts by layering and stitching together the good parts of old worn-out saris. Dorothy will show you examples of how household objects, people, and animals outlined in running stitch feature in the frames or decorative borders of traditional and contemporary kantha.
You will begin by folding layers of cloth together and making a plan to trace onto the top layer. Don’t worry, true scale and representation will not be important! Then you will begin to stitch to add colour, life and pattern to your kantha using variations of running stitch.
DOROTHY TUCKER
Dorothy Tucker works from her home in North Norfolk. She is a member of the Textile Study Group, exhibits her own work, and tutor’s textile workshops in the UK and abroad. Born in India, Dorothy’s choice to stitch by hand is informed by her research into kantha, a form of embroidered quilt traditionally made in what used to be Bengal. In January/February 2020 she travelled in search of kantha to West Bengal and Odisha on a group trip arranged by Discover India through Textiles.
| Tutor: | DOROTHY TUCKER | |||||||||||||||
| Course length: | 5 sessions | |||||||||||||||
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| Cost: | £150 |
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