Synopses & Reviews
For hundreds of years, textiles from India have travelled the globe, clothing the world, from kings and queens to the common man. Indian textiles have been traded in Europe, America, Africa, and the far east, often passing into ritual and religious custom. They have included the most exclusive and expensive festive fabrics as well as the common cloth used for daily wear. Textiles from India explores this fascinating global history. Lavishly illustrated with over 250 colour photographs, the book covers the medieval period up to the present day. So we read about shawls from Kashmir making their way across Asia; brocades especially woven in Benaras for Buddhist rituals in Tibet; the muslins of Bengal; the perennial European favourites of block prints and chintz.
About the Author
Rosemary Crill is Curator, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Table of Contents
Introduction: It All Started With George--Amrita Mukerji * Section 1: The Textile Trade with Asia * Brocade for the Buddhists: The Textile Trade between Benares and Tibet--Monisha Ahmed--The Contemporary Use of Gyasar Brocade in Qinghai Province, China--Joss Graham * Bengali Textiles as Tribute Items to Ming China--Ralph Kauz * The Unusual Textile Trade between India and Sri Lanka: Block-prints and Chintz 1550-1900--Steven Cohen * The Asian Trade in Kashmir Shawls--Janet Rizvi * Indian Textiles for Island Taste: The Trade to Eastern Indonesia--Ruth Barnes * In Quest of Patterns: Notes on a Group of Indian Trade Textiles from the Treasury of the Raja of Los Palos in East Timor--
Brigitte Khan Majlis * Who Influenced Whom? The Indian Textile Trade to Sumatra and Java--Mary Hunt Kahlenberg * Section 2: The Textile Trade with Africa, America and Europe * Kalabari Identity and Indian Textiles in the Niger Delta--Joanne Eicher * Changing Twentieth-century Textile Design and Industry Structure in the India-West Africa Embroidery Trade--Hazel Lutz * An Indian Ocean Odyssey: Malagasy Raffia Ikat Textiles in Gujarat--Jeffrey Hess * Bengal Goods for America in the Nineteenth Century--Susan Bean * Seventeenth-century Perceptions of Textile Trade as Evidenced in the Writings of the Emperor Jahangir and Sir Thomas Roe * The Earliest Survivors? The Indian Embroideries at Hardwick Hall--Rosemary Crill * Geographical Patterns of the Indian Textile Trade * The Geography of Textiles--Jasleen Dhamija * High Roads and Low Roads: A Historical Overview of the Textile Trade of Sindh--Nasreen Askari * Surat as a Centre of the Textile Trade--Sujata Parsai * Section 4: Specific Types of Indian Trade Textile * Muslins of Bengal--Ruby Ghuznavi * Satgaon Quilts: A Study--Satarupa Dutta Majumder * Mashru as a Trade Textile--Yashodhara Agrawal, Bharat Kala Bhavan * The Trade in Zardozi Textiles--Charu Smita Gupta * Section 5: The Trade in Dyes * India's Trade in Indigo: Its Ups and Downs--Jenny Balfour-Paul * Shipwrecks, Dyestuffs and the India Trade--
Rex Cowan
Introduction: It All Started With George--Amrita Mukerji * Section 1: The Textile Trade with Asia * Brocade for the Buddhists: The Textile Trade between Benares and Tibet--Monisha Ahmed--The Contemporary Use of Gyasar Brocade in Qinghai Province, China--Joss Graham * Bengali Textiles as Tribute Items to Ming China--Ralph Kauz * The Unusual Textile Trade between India and Sri Lanka: Block-prints and Chintz 1550-1900--Steven Cohen * The Asian Trade in Kashmir Shawls--Janet Rizvi * Indian Textiles for Island Taste: The Trade to Eastern Indonesia--Ruth Barnes * In Quest of Patterns: Notes on a Group of Indian Trade Textiles from the Treasury of the Raja of Los Palos in East Timor--
Brigitte Khan Majlis * Who Influenced Whom? The Indian Textile Trade to Sumatra and Java--Mary Hunt Kahlenberg * Section 2: The Textile Trade with Africa, America and Europe * Kalabari Identity and Indian Textiles in the Niger Delta--Joanne Eicher * Changing Twentieth-century Textile Design and Industry Structure in the India-West Africa Embroidery Trade--Hazel Lutz * An Indian Ocean Odyssey: Malagasy Raffia Ikat Textiles in Gujarat--Jeffrey Hess * Bengal Goods for America in the Nineteenth Century--Susan Bean * Seventeenth-century Perceptions of Textile Trade as Evidenced in the Writings of the Emperor Jahangir and Sir Thomas Roe * The Earliest Survivors? The Indian Embroideries at Hardwick Hall--Rosemary Crill * Geographical Patterns of the Indian Textile Trade * The Geography of Textiles--Jasleen Dhamija * High Roads and Low Roads: A Historical Overview of the Textile Trade of Sindh--Nasreen Askari * Surat as a Centre of the Textile Trade--Sujata Parsai * Section 4: Specific Types of Indian Trade Textile * Muslins of Bengal--Ruby Ghuznavi * Satgaon Quilts: A Study--Satarupa Dutta Majumder * Mashru as a Trade Textile--Yashodhara Agrawal, Bharat Kala Bhavan * The Trade in Zardozi Textiles--Charu Smita Gupta * Section 5: The Trade in Dyes * India's Trade in Indigo: Its Ups and Downs--Jenny Balfour-Paul * Shipwrecks, Dyestuffs and the India Trade--
Rex Cowan