Hand embroidered quilted blanket inspired by the textile drawings of Bauhaus designer Gunta Stölzl from the 1920s.

The blanket is constructed from multiple layers of discarded saris sewn together using a running or kantha stitch. The different sections of the blanket cover are hand-dyed in the studio and then assembled.

The quilted blanket is the result of conversations on design and craft traditions between Francesca, researcher and founder of the textile-centred project Filanda n.18, and Amal, founder of AfterLife Studio and of the brand Anoir.

The quilted blanket is an item, where the tradition of kantha from Bengal, where Amal’s studio is based, meets the European modernist aesthetic. The item invites a conversation on the parallels between the regularity of the kantha stitch and the geometric designs of the Bauhaus. It also highlights frictions between domestic craft traditions such as kantha and artistic movements that embedded design industrial production and impersonal mass consumption.