Textiles From India: The Global Trade
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. This fascinating global history from the medieval period upto the present day is excitingly captured in this lavishly illustrated collection of wide-ranging essays by scholars from four continents. So we read about shawls from Kashmir making their way across Asia; brocades specially woven in Benaras for Buddhist rituals in Tibet, the muslins of Bengal, block prints and Chintz, perennial favourites in Europe; and the unique Indian embroideries at Hardwick Hall, England, in a major contribution to the study of this fascinating aspect of India's cultural and economic history.
From the Back of the Book:
In the early eighteenth century Indian textile were known and admired around the world for their beauty and for technical finesse in springing, weaving and dyeing. By the second half of the nineteenth century, India had become a textile importer. Spinning, dyeing and hand-manufactures in towns and villages across the subcontinent were overwhelmed by the impact of subsidized mill-made imports. Nevertheless, virtuosity in hand-manufactures survived in many places so that, even in twenty-first century, there is a strong link with the past and India remains a leader in the modest world output of hand-loomed textiles.
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Acknowledgements | IX |
| Editor's Note | XVI |
| Introduction: It all Started with George Amrita Mukerji | 1 |
| Section I: | |
| The Textile Trade with Asia | |
| Monisha Ahmed | 9 |
| Brocade for the Buddhists - | |
| The Textile Trade between Benares and Tibet | |
| Joss Graham | 27 |
| The Contemporary Use of Gyasar Brocade in Qinghai Province, China (Amdo, Tibet) | |
| Ralph Kauz | 39 |
| Bengali Textiles as Tribute Items to Ming China | |
| Steven Cohen | 56 |
| The Unusual Textile Trade between India and Sri Lanka: | |
| Block-prints and Chintz 1550-1900 | |
| Janet Rizvi | 81 |
| The Asian Trade in Kashmir Shawls | |
| Ruth Barnes | 99 |
| Indian Textiles for Island Taste: | |
| The Trade to Eastern Indonesia | |
| Brigitte Khan Majlis | 117 |
| In Quest of Patterns: Notes on a Group of Indian | |
| Trade Textiles from the Treasury of the Raja of Los Palos in East Timor | |
| Mary Hunt Kahlenberg | 135 |
| Who Influenced Whom? The Indian Textile Trade to Sumatra and Java | |
| Section 2: | |
| The Textile Trade with Africa, America and Europe | |
| Joanne Eicher | 153 |
| Kalabari Identity and Indian Textile in the Niger Delta | |
| Hazel Lutz | 173 |
| Changing Twentieth-century Design and Industry | |
| Structure in the India-West Africa Embroidery Trade | |
| Jeffrey Hess | 195 |
| An Indian Ocean Odyssey: | |
| Malagasy Raffia Ikat Textiles in Gujarat | |
| Susan Bean | 217 |
| Bengal Goods for America in Nineteenth Century | |
| Donald Clay Johnson | 233 |
| Seventeenth-Century Perceptions of Textile Trade as Evidenced in the writings of the Emperor Jahangir and Sir Thomas Roe | |
| Rosemary Crill | 245 |
| The Earliest Survivors? | |
| The Indian Embroideries at Hardwick Hall | |
| Section 3: | |
| Geographical Patterns of the Indian Textile Trade | |
| Jasleen Dhamija | 263 |
| The Geography of Textiles | |
| Nasreen Askari | 268 |
| High Roads and Low Roads: A Historical Overview of the Textile Trade of Sindhi | |
| Sujata Parsai | 287 |
| Surat as a Centre of the Textile Trade | |
| Section 4: | |
| Specific Types of Indian Trade Textile | |
| Ruby Ghuznavi | 303 |
| Muslins of Bengal | |
| Satarupa Dutta Majumder | 316 |
| Satgaon Quilts: A Study | |
| Yashodhara Agrawal | 329 |
| Mashru as a Trade Textile | |
| Charu Smita Gupta | 343 |
| The Trade in Zardozi Textiles | |
| Section 5: | |
| The Trade in Dyes | |
| Jenny Balfour-Paul | 357 |
| India's Trade in Indigo Its Ups and Downs | |
| Rex Cowan | 375 |
| Shipwrecks, Dyestuffs and the India Trade | |
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Item Code:
IDF327
Author:
Rosemary Crill
Cover: Hardcover Edition: 2006 Publisher: Seagull Books ISBN: 1905422172 Language: English Size: 11.3" X 7" Pages: 404 (Illustrated in Full Colour) Price: $95.00 |
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