Wall hanging

Catalogue Reference:(MOL) 2000.216

An embroidered wall hanging made by members of the Southwark Bengali Women's Group in 1999 and 2000. The wall hanging, made up of embroidered images sewn to a cotton panel, is in a style typical of Bangladeshi embroidery called Nakshi Khatha meaning 'in the image of'. It is said that the name derives from an old story of a woman forced to communicate with her lover by sending him embroidered images.