{"id":5369,"date":"2012-10-17T06:14:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T19:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=5369"},"modified":"2012-10-17T06:27:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T19:27:23","slug":"beautiful-kantha-blankets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2012\/10\/17\/beautiful-kantha-blankets\/","title":{"rendered":"beautiful kantha blankets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned about this project yesterday, and immediately thought it was so wonderful that I&#8217;d have to share it with you all. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/handandcloth.org\/\" title=\"Hand &#038; Cloth\" target=\"_blank\">Hand &#038; Cloth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RY0gpZIpA40?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>If you receive this as an email, you&#8217;ll need to go <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/RY0gpZIpA40\" title=\"Hand &#038; Cloth\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to view the video.<\/p>\n<p>Hand &#038; Cloth operates in Bangladesh, where women have traditionally made blankets from rags to keep their families warm. At Basha, where at-risk women are employed, blankets are made from layers of old saris which are running stitched together. They are gorgeous! I particularly love the silk sari ones. <\/p>\n<p>What a lovely way to create employment for women who desperately need it. If we ever end up in an economically depressed country again, this is the sort of work I would love to be involved in &#8211; working with nationals to create gorgeous textiles, based on traditional crafts, to help women and their families have happier and healthier lives.<\/p>\n<p>There is lots of information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/handandcloth.org\" title=\"Hand &#038; Cloth\" target=\"_blank\">Hand &#038; Cloth<\/a> website about the traditions of kantha, about the project, and about how lives are being changed. They have a listing of where their kantha blankets can be purchased locally, and an online shop where you can support them by purchasing some of their gorgeous textiles.<\/p>\n<p>No affiliations etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned about this project yesterday, and immediately thought it was so wonderful that I&#8217;d have to share it with you all. It&#8217;s called Hand &#038; Cloth.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive this as an email, you&#8217;ll need to go here to view the video.<\/p>\n<p>Hand &#038; Cloth operates in Bangladesh, where women have traditionally made blankets [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,29,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-historical-embroidery","category-introducing","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}