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Textiles from India : the global trade : papers presented at a conference on the Indian textile trade, Kolkata, 12-14 October 2003
- 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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- 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
- 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