Research Catalog

Title

Textiles from India : the global trade : papers presented at a conference on the Indian textile trade, Kolkata, 12-14 October 2003 / edited by Rosemary Crill.

Publication

Calcutta ; New York, NY : Seagull Books, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Crill, Rosemary.
• Sutra (Organization : Kolkata, India)

Description

xvi, 388 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color); 29 cm

Summary

Contributed papers presented at a conference "Sutra: Thread, Ties, and Transformations- two thousand years of textile trade between the Indian sub-continent and the world" held at Calcutta in October 2003.

Subject

• Textile industry > India > History > Congresses
• Clothing trade > India > History > Congresses
• Clothing and dress > India > Marketing > Congresses
• Clothing and dress > Marketing
• Clothing trade
• Textile industry
• India

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "Copyright: Sutra 2005"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction : it all started with George / Amrita Mukerji -- 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 -- 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 / Donald Clay Johnson -- The earliest survivors? : the Indian embroideries at Hardwick Hall / Rosemary Crill -- 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 -- Muslins of Bengal / Ruby Ghuznavi -- Satgaon quilts : a study / Satarupa Dutta Majumder -- Mashru as a trade textile / Yashodhara Agrawal -- The trade in zardozi textiles / Charu Smita Gupta -- India's trade in indigo : its ups and downs / Jenny Balfour-Paul -- Shipwrecks, dyestuffs and the India trade / Rex Cowan.

ISBN

• 1905422172
• 9781905422173

LCCN

2006554894

OCLC

• ocm70265890
• 70265890
• SCSB-1397087

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library