Vintage Kantha Blanket | Geometric Leaf Diamond Lattice | West Bengal India Sale fabrics instructor and author

instructor and author

high-quality speckled cotton

This sewing pattern is recommended for intermediate sewers

like new condition

Vintage Kantha Blanket | Geometric Leaf Diamond Lattice | West Bengal India Sale fabrics instructor and authorAn extraordinary example of Bengali needlework at its most meditative and intricate, this antique Kantha blanket from West Bengal, India is covered edge to edge in a mesmerizing allover pattern of curved leaf shaped diamonds hundreds of hand stitched motifs filling every inch of the ivory cotton ground in a rhythmic, almost hypnotic composition. The entire surface is blanketed in an interlocking lattice of elongated curved diamonds, each one filled