- This event has passed.
Workshop: Nakshi Kantha hand embroidery workshop with Shama Kun
Saturday 19th August 2023 , 11:00am to 1:00pm
This workshop is now sold out! Please email nunnery@bowarts.com to be added to our waitlist.
Explore the traditional art and craft of Kantha embroidery and its radical history as you stitch your own Nakshi Kantha design to represent the stories and messages you want to tell.
Nakshi Kantha is an ancient heritage technique and craft which originates in Bengal. These particular designs and patterns are rendered through a type of running stitch used to decorate hand quilted Kantha (blankets).
Under the tutelage of designer and crafts practitioner Shama Kun, you will learn about the cultural legacies and radical history of Nakshi Kantha, rooted in the experiences of rural Bangladeshi women, nature, storytelling, and women’s empowerment.
Taking cues from this rich embroidery tradition, you will playfully experiment with different kinds of stitch to bring to life your own personal Nakshi Kantha design that embodies the stories and messages that you want to tell.
No experience necessary – all materials will be provided!
This workshop is now sold out! Please email nunnery@bowarts.com to be added to our waitlist.
Concessions rate applies to Bow Arts artists, students, over 65s, under 18s, National Art Pass members, and key workers
More about Shama Kun
Shama Kun, an ethical and sustainable fashion and product designer and a crafts practitioner. A “people before profit” label, Shama focuses on keeping indigenous Bangladeshi crafts and craftmanship along with handloom textile knowledge alive while providing culturally inspired modern designs to suit contemporary lifestyle.
Shama Kun’s current work inspired by the ancestral ideology of reusing, repurposing, and reclaiming, here she up-cycle, recycle and mend clothing and textiles collected all areas of dumping ground from Bangladesh using Nakshi Kantha techniques as a medium to celebrate handcrafts and revive cultural sustainability.
Access information
The Bow Arts courtyard room has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site but blue badge parking can be found 500m away on Fairfield Road.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Mon-Friday, 9am to 5pm
Address: Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
