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Celebration of a very special Vintage Kantha Quilt

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Celebration of a very special Vintage Kantha Quilt

Both Kay and I wanted to keep this beautiful old kantha quilt that we bought a couple of years ago in Jaipur.

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Desert Flowers - Embroidered Textiles of Afghanistan.

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Desert Flowers - Embroidered Textiles of Afghanistan.

Our talk to the Embroiderers Guild continued the theme of embroidered wedding shawls with an excursion to Afghanistan where the embroidery style is mostly geometric in design. 

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Tied up in Knots - Bandhani, Gujarat | Silk Road Gallery

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Tied up in Knots - Bandhani, Gujarat | Silk Road Gallery

Bandhani is an intricate technique that produces spectacular textiles with patterns of different coloured dots. In Gujarat I find the answer to a question that's puzzled me for years.

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Silk Road Gallery

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Silk Road Gallery

In April 2017 we opened a new showroom for called the Silk Road Gallery and we'd be delighted to see you there. The Gallery is in a converted stable block in Sheffield's popular Sharrow Vale Road.

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