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Jhikargachha Tradition - Nokshi Kantha
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► Encyclopedia Kantha village Panthapara: Its name is Panthpara, Naksi Kantha village. From Jessore on the paved road, the distance of the route has been reduced to Magura. The road is about 15 Mr. After the advance of Khajurah Bazar. Lokalye soon after the market is over. Khajurah Bazar after about 15 km on the road. Lokayatake far beyond the market. Vegetable farms near the road. Brick kilns. Behind the village Driving from the pucca to the dust, the path has gone to Panth Paraya. After half a kilometer, the village start Shaya Dhaka Village. The old mango tree still reveals the existence of the village to the traditions of the village. When you enter the village, you will see an incredible scene. The housewives of the village are kantha sewing by spreading the shade of mango. Small nanga babies play their wishes beside Mother's index work. Or the scenes also show that the work of kantha sewing is going on under the maize of the household's home. And the transistor is going on. The child's chest in the arms of the chest and the mother's mouth is spinning milk in the gap. Jessore Bagharpara police station in Panth para village this winter, whether summer or summer. Small village 200 families live in this village. Most people's job is to work in agriculture. The literacy rate of village is very low. 90 percent of the population live below the poverty line. Take 100 women Nokshi Kantha stitches from Panthapara village as a housewife, adolescent, widow and husband abandoned work as their profession. These women are trying to move towards the front of their own poverty by stitching different types of kantha. They also painted colorful nonsense kantas like flowers. And singing songs by multiplying. Makes the stump. Five years ago the village look was different. The housewife would have been divorced on her lips. Because the agricultural land is not the majority of the families, villagers have always tried to survive in fighting the poverty. If the women act, it will be sin, and if the women go out of the house, they will always say that the mardabara mathbabara. In 1994, Rahima Sultana, director of a non-government organization, alongside a village named Rahima Sultana, a common woman in Jessore city, spoke to the woman of Panthapara village. Tried to learn the inner pain of them. Organized 20-day sewing work training. Kantha sewing work. Other women came forward in phases. They also learned the technique of making kinha. Since then women of the village like Dishar Ardar are making cotton. Delicate fabrics provide yarn. They give women stitches of cotton. These kanthas are sold in Jessore, Dhaka. Some people bought cotton from abroad and sent abroad, Noxikantha of Panthapada reached the convergence of the peasant bride through several countries in Europe. The gentlemen of this region tried to know the importance of rural women in Bangladesh by seeing this kantha. ► Nokshi Kantha's Ekal Akash: The past of Nokshi Kantha in the Jessore region is still bright. In history, it is seen that 500 to 700 years ago, people of the town were surrounded by Naksi Kantha for the prevention of cold. The house was built in the hands of the husbands, they were abroad. At that time, the picture would be painted with cotton yarn made of Noxi Kantha Alpana. After making this thread, all the details of Nokshi Kantha were related to the housewife's artistic personality. Apart from this, the thread of the old used sarees was made with the thread of Naksi Kantha. Which is still somewhere anywhere. Satish Chandra Mitra wrote in his book 'History of Jessore-Khulna', Pathan was rich in Jessore's textile industry. It is easy to achieve this prosperity due to the production of fine cotton. It is seen, in 1300 AD, 700 years ago, this township was seen as a garment, in about 1300 CE, this township had occupied a separate place some 700 years ago. Satish Chandra Mitra also wrote that, the wives used to wear kantha stitches and 'sika' to defeat another country. His writings prove that hundreds of years ago, Naksi Kantha, made by women of Jessore, earned fame from country and abroad. Which continues today. In the context of female members of the family, it is known that the family nobility of the village dwellers or even the urban babus. At that time, the women of different colors of the country, besides the scenes of elephants, horses, tigers, flowers, snakes, from the minds of the neighboring yarn, the females yarned. Generally, these kanthas were taken out of the box when the festival was held or the guests came to the house. At that time, there is no history of making Kantha on commercial basis. After the change of day, the construction of the kantha style has also changed. Due to the socio-economic conditions of the people, sometimes Nokshi Kantha could not see the face of light. A new horizon of sewing work was uncovered in Jessore region in the sixties in Pakistan's Jaman. Aishwarya Pradashishi, a progressive woman of Jessore, is the main figure of this work. In 1955, Begum Ayesha Sardar, in Jessore's old town of Kasba, gave Jessore Stich a niche for the work of a sewing school named Jessore Mahila Industrial School Social Welfare Association. Talk to Mohsena Ara Chowdhury. He said, after the completion of academic education in 1957, there was no stitching school for Ayesha Sardar's call. Some women of Shantipur lived in our area. He wants to work, to run the family. This widow named Tajima Khatun said that she knew Ripu's job. Then, on the basis of that shawl ripar, the work of preparing leaves in the ripar pattern began to flower. With the Pakistani DMC yarn, do not wear sandy or sarees in Siddipasha thana, in addition to nuxi kantha, dining set, bed cover. Flower was put on the knees. Ayesha Sardar, Mrs. Asiya N. Khoda, Salma Khatun Bijli Biswas, Our Sewing In Their Attempts