{"id":"kantha","no":747,"name":"Kantha","ja":"カンタ刺繍","era":"living tradition / surviving 19th-century works","family":"染織の伝統","kind":"技法","source":{"title":"Philadelphia Museum of Art — Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal","url":"https://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/kantha-the-embroidered-quilts-of-bengal-from-the-jill-and-sheldon-bonovitz-and-the-stella-kramrisch-collections"},"essence":"ベンガル、現在のバングラデシュと西ベンガルで、使い古した布を重ね、細かな運針と刺繍で生活の布へ作り直す伝統。縫い目が地に波や反復を作り、人物、動物、花、幾何学模様が各作品の物語になる。単なるキルティングの総称ではなく、布の再利用と作り手の個別の構成を持つ地域の染織として読む。","cues":["重ねた布を細かな運針でつなぐ","縫い目の列が柔らかな波や同心のリズムを作る","明るい布地に赤、青、黒などの刺繍が浮かぶ","中央の花や円形と、その周囲に広がる小さな場面や縁取り"],"intents":["親密","懐かしさ"],"pair":["mola","phulkari"],"study":["Philadelphia Museum of Art — Kantha collections","V&A — Kantha in Indian embroidery","LACMA — Kantha (Quilt), East Bengal, 19th century"],"works":["布の再利用を扱う展示や出版で、材料の履歴と手の反復を一緒に伝えるとき","作り手と協働する生活布の企画で、一点ごとの物語と縫い目の違いを残すとき"],"recipe":{"type":"布の来歴、作り手、用途を短いラベルにまとめ、刺繍を説明文で覆わない。","layout":"中心の一つの形と周囲の縫い目の流れを決め、余白も運針のリズムでつなぐ。","material":"柔らかな再利用布を重ね、細い色糸を少数使う。機械的に均一な模様へ整えすぎない。"},"avoid":"すべてのカンタが同じ中央構図や同じステッチとは限らない。刺し子や一般的なキルトと区別し、後年の新しい布やクロスステッチを使う作品も個別に記録する。","colors":["#EAE0C8","#A13F37","#31435A"],"motif":"textile","collection":"Dictionary expansion 48","addedAt":"2026-10-05","reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/kantha-the-embroidered-quilts-of-bengal-from-the-jill-and-sheldon-bonovitz-and-the-stella-kramrisch-collections","credit":"Philadelphia Museum of Art — Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kantha%20(Quilt)%20LACMA%20AC1994.131.1.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kantha%20(Quilt)%20LACMA%20AC1994.131.1.jpg","credit":"Kantha quilt, East Bengal, 19th century — LACMA, AC1994.131.1 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kantha%20(bed%20cover)%20from%20Bengal%2C%20Honolulu%20Museum%20of%20Art%2C%203983.1.JPG?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kantha%20(bed%20cover)%20from%20Bengal%2C%20Honolulu%20Museum%20of%20Art%2C%203983.1.JPG","credit":"Kantha bed cover, Bengal, late 19th–early 20th century — Honolulu Museum of Art, 3983.1; photo: Hiart — Wikimedia Commons / CC0"}]},"en":{"essence":"A Bengali textile tradition of layering worn cloth and joining it with running stitches and embroidery. Stitch paths create ripples and rhythms around images and geometric forms. Reused material and each maker's composition distinguish these household textiles from quilting as a general technique.","cues":["Layers of cloth joined with small running stitches","Stitch rows forming soft ripples and concentric rhythms","Coloured embroidery against a light cloth ground","Central forms, small scenes and borders composed differently in each work"],"works":["Connecting material history with repeated handwork in textile exhibitions","Collaborating with makers on household cloths while retaining individual narratives and stitch variation"],"recipe":{"type":"Label material history, maker and use without covering the embroidery.","layout":"Choose one central relation and connect its surrounding spaces through stitch direction.","material":"Layer soft reused cloth and a few fine threads; keep variation rather than forcing a mechanically even repeat."},"avoid":"Not every kantha uses one central layout or one stitch. Distinguish it from sashiko and generic quilts, and document later work using new cloth or cross-stitch individually.","study":["Philadelphia Museum of Art — Kantha collections","V&A — Kantha in Indian embroidery","LACMA — Kantha (Quilt), East Bengal, 19th century"]},"links":{"page":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/kantha","json":"https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/kantha","designSpec":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/kantha/design.md","imagePrompt":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/kantha/prompt.txt"},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}