For what seems like just another pretty piece of fabric that can comfort you on chilly days or adorn the walls of your home, a quilt speaks a thousand words. It’s what Painted Stitches, Woven Stories, a new online exhibition by Bengaluru-based Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) hopes to convey, journeying through kantha quilting practices in India.

A kantha by the maker ‘kalachand’ depicting scenes of daily life made in the 1980s under the guidance of Meera Mukherjee. Pic courtesy/Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru