SHE – Self Help Enterprise

Just like a needle is to thread, so is Shamlu to Kantha. A name, now synonymous with this beloved traditional craft of Bengal.

Meet Shamlu Dudeja. A mother, a teacher, a revolutionary.

Not an artist or a designer, but one with great sensitivity - her keen eye recognised the need for reviving this dying art back in the eighties. There has been no stopping her ever since.

Each piece of work, she professes, is a labour of love weaving in, in its patterns, the story of simple women, their joys, sorrows and aspirations.

25 years on she has managed to elevate a poor man's stitch to the portals of fine art.