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Exhibition Postcards for Shisha, Kantha, and Kachchh: South Asian Domestic Embroidery in the TATTER Collection

Stunning postcards featuring various objects from TATTER's first long term exhibition. Purchase individually or in a set of all five. 
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Shisha, Kantha, and Kachchh: South Asian Domestic Embroidery in the TATTER Collection is the first long-term exhibition in the Blue Library. Pulling together and highlighting pieces from our collection that present domestic textiles as works of art and their makers as artists, this exhibition will include shisha mirrorwork panels, kantha-stitched coverings for the home, and Kachchh (Kutch) dowry bags. These objects incorporate traditional motifs reflective of rural and nomadic life in the delta and desert regions of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. While they display the creativity and individual hands of the women and girls who made them, they also show signs of life in their wear and stains.
This exhibition emerged as a complement to our educational programming, lending materiality and context to the techniques our beloved veteran teachers, Ekta Kaul and Shahnaz Khan, have been offering our TATTER community for years. We hope that this exhibition will be the first of many as we approach ten years as an institution and we can’t wait to share it with you.

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