{"product_id":"village-life-beneath-the-fruit-trees-in-kantha-embroidery-by-the-kantha-store","title":"Village Life Beneath the Fruit Trees in Kantha Embroidery by The Kantha Store","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis lively textile in Kantha embroidery by The Kantha Store, a traditional craft celebrated for its humble running stitch, its layered cloth and its gift for storytelling. A whole village, busy with the work and play of an ordinary day, unfolds across a single square of cloth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKantha comes from the women of rural Bengal, who joined layers of old cloth with running stitches and recorded the world around them in thread: festivals, animals, fields, trees and the small events of daily life. The craft has long been a way to say what words did not, and scenes like this one carry the warmth of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the cream ground, trees of many kinds fill the cloth: coconut palms with clusters of fruit, mango and fruit trees with round leaves in green and blue, and branching trunks in deep brown. Thatched huts sit among them. At the upper centre, two women sit together near a hut, talking over a pot. A man at the upper right works beside a cow with a basket, and a villager at the right carries two pots on a yoke across his shoulders. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the middle of the cloth, a man in orange points toward the trees while two children walk beside him, and others climb among the branches, reach for fruit or run across the ground. A woman in a pink and red sari stoops to gather something, and two women in saris of purple and teal walk side by side with pots on their hips near the bottom centre. At the lower left, a striped cow eats from a basket, and a seated figure in blue tends a pot at the lower right. Colourful birds perch and fly among the branches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlowers in blue, pink, red and orange are scattered through the grass, and green plants fill the corners. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe palette is fresh and abundant, with many greens against the cream ground and small accents of coral, blue and yellow. A border of blue and red with fine dotted stitching encloses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe scene.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Kantha Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67612386033878,"sku":null,"price":60000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/1498\/files\/5_33a0f553-9725-4590-8d48-5d711b90c5cf.png?v=1792929898","url":"https:\/\/www.memeraki.com\/products\/village-life-beneath-the-fruit-trees-in-kantha-embroidery-by-the-kantha-store","provider":"Memeraki Retail and Tech Pvt Ltd.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}