A camera builds a picture from pixels, and so do these works from Pabna, except that each pixel is a needle stitch on jute sacking. Coloured thread brings out flowers, birds, landscapes and even the face of the Mona Lisa.
The pictures are made by Tania Afroz of the Mandalpara neighbourhood of Pabna town, Prothom Alo reports. She has turned her hobby into a business and trained more than a hundred women, giving them a way to earn. Prothom Alo photographer Hasan Mahmud tells the story of this new use for plain jute sacking in a photo essay.
The first of the nine photographs show pictures being stitched onto jute sacking in threads of many colours, the same threads from which each image emerges. In one, Tania Afroz shows another woman how the work is done.
Up close the stitches stand apart; with the eyes narrowed or from a distance, they become pictures. The finished pieces include a couple under an umbrella in the rain, a basket of fruit, a pair of birds on a wire, and the Mona Lisa, worked out stitch by stitch.
Prothom Alo's photographs are not shown here; the picture with this story is a general view of jute sacking.
Photo: Downtowngal / Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Source: Prothom Alo
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