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This particular quilt was composed during the height of this movement and epitomizes the Victorian design sense. It features an incredible amount of symbols, detailed needlework, and a variety of fabrics giving it a powerful graphic impact. The symbols range from cats, crescent moons, teas sets, fans, butterflies, flowers, and even a beaded horseshoe with
Exceptional Victorian Era "1889" Crazy Quilt - 4'10 x 5'1
$2,500.00
Large Antique Nakshi Kantha - 4'5 x 5'8
Large Antique Nakshi Kantha - 4'5 x 5'8
$1,350.00
Bengali Kantha featuring an off-center mandala with reciprocal panels on top and bottom. The central mandala is squished to one side by three elephants and one horse form. The top and bottom panels both feature a row of plant forms that blossom into birds. Soft red, blue, and yellow on a soft pink ground.
Pink Antique Nakshi Kantha - 2'8 x 3'10
$1,350.00
Antique Nakshi Kantha featuring an off-center mandala with three reciprocal panels on top and bottom. The panels feature an elephant, a person on horseback, and what appears to be a rendition of the British hunter motif. It is framed by an alternating rosette and leaf border reminiscent of the classical egg and dart style. At the four corners of the border is a single rosette.
Antique Circus Nakshi Kantha - 1'1 x 1'8
$650.00
Antique pastel Kantha featuring a central mandala with pinwheels at its focal point as well as its four flanks. The patterning is a variation of different abstracted forms consistent in form as well as color with a limited palette of navy and red faded to soft pink on a white cotton ground. The consistency is slightly thrown by some moments where the original red has not faded packing a small punch. The red moments in combination with the pinwheels give this piece a hypnotic effect.
Antique Hypnotic Nakshi Kantha - 2'1 x 2'2
$575.00
Antique Kantha featuring a central floral mandala with vegetal forms in each cornice. It has a limited palette of various red and black threads on plain white cotton ground. The red and black threads were likely harvested and reused from old clothing. A mixed border of local fish (Ilish) on the vertical and birds (Doyel) on the horizontal frame the whole. Look closely to notice two small birds in one cornice.
Antique Lotus Nakshi Kantha - 1'11 x 2'4
$950.00
Bengali Kantha featuring a large central bouquet of flowers in a vase flanked by four smaller bouquets in vases. The leaves of the central bouquet are also interestingly rounded into pinwheel form. The outer border was taken from an old sari edge and reattached around the perimeter. The words
Bengali Script Nakshi Kantha - 2'4 x 2'8
$850.00
Antique Kantha featuring a vibrant central lotus mandala on a colorful backdrop of abstracted forms and pinwheels. The pattern flares out from the center in a series of concentric squares with concave corners that make room for pinwheels on the diagonal. Great visual movement and energy appear to emanate outwards like a firework exploding in slow motion.
Concentric Nakshi Kantha - 1'11 x 2'
$950.00
Antique Kantha featuring a detailed weblike central mandala flanked by four blossoming bouquet cornices. Each is similar yet distinctive and pokes and squishes the mandala distorting its form. The simple rendition is energized by colorful and vibrant leaf-like forms in red, blue, orange, and green cutting across the white cotton field at various angles. The whole is framed by a thin, red
Colorful Nakshi Kantha - 2' x 2'3
$850.00
large Antique Bengali Kantha featuring a repeat pattern of quatrefoils in a grid. It has a limited palette of various red and black threads on a plain white cotton ground which is subtle but intriguing. The stitching gets fuller and more saturated in the center and small pinwheel motifs have been added giving the piece a more traditional focal point. The patterning is broken in a section in which the inclusion of an elephant adds some interest.
Large Antique Nakshi Kantha - 3'7 x 5'5
$1,250.00
Antique large Bengali Kantha featuring a repeat field of flowering vines and curving lines as a backdrop to a small off-center mandala and large-scale floral forms. The addition of a peacock and a Vimana or flying palace adds some serious interest. The large-scale floral forms almost feel like fireworks exploding in the sky. The whole composition is flanked by richly rendered paisley or
Antique Nakshi Kantha - 4'1 x 7'11
$1,750.00
Antique Bengali figural Kantha featuring a story over multiple scenes. It may display a classic folk story or something relevant to the maker. A variety of scenes of village life are showcased; including animals being fed from trees, lovers dancing, and a man with two faces. A sense of symmetry is achieved by the inclusion of a grand paisley motif in each of the four corners.
Narrative Pastel Kantha - 1'11 x 2'3
$1,150.00
Antique Bengali Kantha featuring 16 squares full of leaf and other vegetal forms. Simple and refined with nuanced variation in stitching in straightforward red and navy thread on a white cotton ground.
Antique Nakshi Kantha - 2'5 x 2'6
$1,150.00 Sold out
Antique rare Bengali Kantha referencing Ram or Rama who is one the most popular Hindu deities and likely intended as a mantra in
Rare Calligraphy "Ram" Kantha - 1'7 x 2'3
$1,200.00
Antique Bengali narrative Kantha that tells a story over multiple scenes. It may display a classic folk story or something relevant to the maker. A variety of scenes of village life are showcased including collecting wood, making of chapathi, and a conflict where the participants are holding sticks or other weapons. A very intriguing piece that incorporates many varied scenes into a visually balanced whole.
Antique Nakshi Kantha - 1'9 x 2'
$1,200.00
Antique Bengali Kantha featuring a field full of columns from pinwheels and floral meanders to zig zags and simple shapes. Crisply and meticulously rendered with a wide and vibrant color palette on a white cotton ground. Framed around the perimeter by mixed scroll borders of flower buds on the vertical and pinwheels on the horizontal.
Antique Nakshi Kantha - 2'4 x 2'11
$950.00
This Vintage Peruvian Kilim features three concentric diamonds with a
Vintage Peruvian Kilim - 1'8 x 4'6
$275.00
Woven Apsara Wall textile featuring two copper-toned figures against a backdrop of blocks of green, purple and brown, and beige. There is one main figure as well as the profile of another figure near the edge of the weaving. It is likely a depiction of an Apsara, a female celestial being that is often depicted in Hindu and Buddhist art throughout South and Southeast Asia.
Woven Apsara Wall Textile - 2'5 x 2'8
$550.00
This Midcentury Moroccan Shawl is very finely woven of soft wool and features horizontal bands in black, white, and purple with moments of colorful turquoise and creamsicle. Other those few unadorned colorful moments all the other stripes feature a black and white chain stitch embossed through their center.
Midcentury Moroccan Shawl - 3'10 x 6'4
$750.00
Vintage Polish Kilim - 2'6 x 4'3
Vintage Polish Kilim - 2'6 x 4'3
$750.00
This Vintage Peruvian Kilim features a grid of diagonally repeating squares full of various abstracted shapes and symbols. It is woven in two panels which are sewn together and utilize tones of soft cochineal purples, undyed browns, and greens with pops of yellow. The colors and style suggest it was woven by the talented weavers in the Ayacucho region. Very soft and lightweight, can double as a multifunctional textile or wall tapestry.
Vintage Peruvian Kilim - 3'10 x 5'3
$375.00
This Three Elephant Kantha features a main panel with a central flower surrounded by organic flowering vines and free-flowing running stitches. The bottom panel has a lovely rendition of three elephants. Elephants are a very auspicious and potent symbol in local culture. They represent wisdom and strength as well as having regal and divine connotations dependent on the intention of the artisan.
Three Elephant Kantha - 2'9 x 3'9
$950.00
This Durga & Kali Nakshi Kantha features a representation of Kali the Hindu goddess of power, time, change, creation, and destruction. Durga has transformed into Kali who has gone on a rampage destroying the universe. She is seen holding the decapitated head of Mahishasura while those around her calm her including Shiva who is underfoot.
Durga & Kali Nakshi Kantha - 18" x 17"
$950.00
Raas Leela Arshilata Kantha - 27
Raas Leela Arshilata Kantha - 27" x 9"
$850.00 Sold out
Embroidered Uzbek skull cap cross stitched of silk and features a variety blossoming palmettes in bright reds, greens, purples and yellow on blue ground. The edge of the skull cup is finished nicely with a thin border panel of opposing tridents.
Embroidered Uzbek Hat
$125.00
Uzbeki embroidered skull cap cross-stitched of silk into four main sections and features bright tones of green, purple, pink, and yellow. The edge of the skull cup is finished nicely with a thin border panel of opposing trident panels.
Embroidered Uzbek Hat
$125.00
Antique uzbek Lakai Cross Stitch
Antique Lakai Cross-Stitch Sash - 3" x 25"
$185.00 Sold out
Vintage Hmong Sash- 6
Vintage Hmong Sash- 6" x 22"
$100.00
Moroccan wedding blanket that features cream tone on tone horizontal bands which have a perimeter of plush bands of thick pile in white with stray pops of blue, green, yellow and black. One the reverse it features the same horizontal bands, but the perimeter has blocks flatwoven black and white geometric patterning.
Moroccan Wedding Blanket - 3'11 x 5'5
$450.00
Moroccan wedding blanket that features cream tone on tone horizontal bands which are occasionally superseded by plush bands of thick pile. On the reverse the same horizontal bands are broken up by patterned geometric bands in black and white.
Moroccan Wedding Blanket - 3'10 x 6'1
$375.00
Wool Moroccan Blanket that features horizontal bands in a soft color palette of pink, orange, purple, yellow and brown. Some stripes are framed by weft floats on each side which add a subtle dimensionality.
Wool Moroccan Blanket - 5'6 x 10'3
$500.00
19th century Ottoman textile featuring patched pieces salvaged all from one larger cloth. Fragments of various floral motifs can be found in patinated blues, greens, pinks amongst brown and ivory.
Patch-worked Ottoman Textile - 17" x 17"
$150.00