This is a multicoloured pure silk stole with Kantha embroidery. The stole features floral kantha embroidered motifs all over, has red borders and blue facing. Kantha is the traditional running stitch which originated from the way in which Bengali housewives mended old clothes by taking out a strand of thread from the colourful border of their sarees and making simple designs with them. The origin of Kantha traces its history to a period not less than a thousand years and is still practiced today by millions women in rural Indian districts.