{"id":35,"date":"2008-06-24T22:03:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T21:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.practicalstudygroup.co.uk\/gallery\/creativedialogues\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2011-06-09T18:46:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T18:46:21","slug":"dorothy-tucker-and-jenny-bullen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/textilestudygroup.co.uk\/creativedialoguesexhibition\/creative-dialogues\/dorothy-tucker-and-jenny-bullen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Tucker and Jenny Bullen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kantha<\/a>: A Collaboration between Practical Study Group Members Jenny Bullen and Dorothy Tucker, and Surjeet Husain<\/h3>\n

Surjeet Husain’s knowledge of Indian embroidery is informed by her in-depth practical research and visits to India where by chance she found a young girl called Rakha stitching a Kantha at her tea stall not far from the hotel.\u00a0 Between providing tea for her customers, Rakha very happily taught Surjeet her repertoire.<\/p>\n

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The word Kantha in Bengali means cloth. Traditionally Kantha are made from the best parts of old worn saris or dhotis.\u00a0 It is also the name given to a way of stitching in which variations of running stitch are worked though all the layers of cloth, quilting them together and creating intricate designs and textures.<\/p>\n

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As friends, Dorothy Tucker and Surjeet Husain meet and stitch together regularly, and over the years Dorothy\u2019s enthusiasm for Kantha has been enhanced by seeing the wonderful examples Surjeet has shown her.\u00a0 Some of the stitches she learnt from Surjeet Dorothy now uses in her own work and teaching.<\/p>\n

Jenny Bullen is well known for her love of stitching by hand. When she joined Dorothy and Surjeet on this project, the trio decided to cut and divide a sari between them, and to use it to stitch a Kantha each in their own way.\u00a0\u00a0 Over several months of stitching, meeting together and exchanging emails, their creative dialogue turned into a celebration of how pleasure, inspiration and skills can be passed on informally from person to person.<\/p>\n

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Surjeet, Dorothy and Jenny also invited some of their friends, new to embroidery, to Surjeet’s home to create a little Kantha each.\u00a0 The conversations or quiet times of concentration shared during these two Sundays of stitching together confirm that creating a Kantha has a lot offer busy women working in the fast track of life today.<\/p>\n

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