The ancient and the avant-garde
The tapestries of rashid choudhury
photos: courtesy of the Bangladesh national museum and mizanur rahman khoka When Rashid Choudhury decided to pursue tapestry as his preferred medium to ‘flittingly depict [the] men and nature’ of his motherland -and later, in 1964, set up a tapestry loom factory – he was doing something new in Bangladesh. The closest to tapestry was…