Kowdhi- The Art of Traditional Hand Quilting

Kowdhi is a hand quilting technique with origins in Karnataka region of India. India Quilt Festival brings you this Video from BuDa Folklore, a Honnavar based centre which works on preserving and documenting local culture. You can also learn Kowdhi Quilting from expert artisan, Nirmala Akka during the India Quilt Festival 2019.

[@26debsterdots]

I would love to see more of this type of quilting please

[@donnadees1971]

KUDOS, KUDOS, I so admire you and your work.

[@robinbrooks3794]

My hands should be doing this. God bless each of you. Wonderful work.

[@lorrainewilliams7896]

I wish I could have heard what the woman was saying, but the music is far too loud.

[@sheppardmorrison3239]

Thank you. This is wonderful.

[@kcalhoun0580]

Beautiful 😍

[@deepalimsheth]

Its so beatiful to watch the lady make the quilt. I would love to learn. Can you help please

[@renukasingh9154]

How do we get in touch with her?

[@robinaanstey3734]

Beautiful!!!! I'm just now learning about these beautiful quilts and I'm making a small sampler as inspiration for a future larger quilt. I know the tradition of placing the triangles in each of the four corners of the quilt, but what are those tiny white things they're placing inside of the block? Is it some sort of prayer? Thank you for sharing this video. It's so inspiring. Cheers from sunny FL. 😀

[@rohinichandrashekar9508]

I read somewhere that they place rice in the middle square, not sure if it is cooked or raw rice. It could be related to the fact that when a quilt is given to the recipient, it is given with the gesture of "hotte thumbisodu" which in Kannada, (my) the language of Karnataka, means "to fill the stomach/may you be well fed".