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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 / edited by Rosemary Crill.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Textile industry--India--History--Congresses.
- Textile industry.
- Clothing trade--India--History--Congresses.
- Clothing trade.
- Clothing and dress--India--Marketing--Congresses.
- Clothing and dress.
- Marketing.
- History.
- India.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 388 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Calcutta ; New York, NY : Seagull Books, 2006.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Copyright: Sutra 2005"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1905422172
- 9781905422173
- OCLC:
- 70265890
- Online:
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- Publisher description
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