Indian textiles in the East : from Southeast Asia to Japan
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Bibliographic Information
Indian textiles in the East : from Southeast Asia to Japan
Thames & Hudson, 2009, c1998
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Indian textiles in the East
Available at 5 libraries
Note
"Originally published under the title Woven cargoes: Indian textiles in the East"--T.p. verso
"First published in 1998 in hardcover in the United States of America"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 181-185
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The dazzlingly varied cloths presented in this book are the visual record of one of the great stories of Asian design history: the trade in Indian textiles to Southeast and East Asia. Alongside a wealth of illustrations, John Guy examines the history of the cloth-for-spices trade, focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries when the thousand-year-old trade was at is peak. With beautiful photographs of the vibrantly coloured and patterned textiles themselves, vivid first-hand descriptions by travellers and merchants, historic images of people and places, related arts and ethnographic studies, this book is both an indispensable resource and a visual feast for all students and lovers of textiles.
Table of Contents
I. Textiles, Culture and Spices * II. Techniques and Production Centres III. Indian Cloth and International Trade * IV. The Asian Trade Before European Intervention * V. The Malay World * VI. Indonesia * VII. Cloths in the Fashion of Siam * VIII. China * IX. `Strange Painteinges': The Japan Trade
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