It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Making Kantha, Making Home by Pika Ghosh
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers, and seating mats. Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds shaped by the Bengali kantha that survive from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the first study of colonial-period women’s embroidery that situates these objects historically and socially, Pika Ghosh brings technique and aesthetic choices into discussion...
Making Kantha, Making Home by Pika Ghosh is 275 pages long, and a total of 70,125 words.
This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 23 minutes to read Making Kantha, Making Home aloud.
Making Kantha, Making Home is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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