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 textiles themselves (outstanding among them the famous cotton chintzes and the tie-and-dye silk patola), illuminating images of people and places, and vivid first-hand descriptions by travellers and merchants, this is both an indispensable resource and a visual feast for all students and lovers of textiles.
With beautiful photographs of the textiles themselves (outstanding among them the famous cotton chintzes and the tie-and-dye silk patola), illuminating images of people and places, and vivid first-hand descriptions by travellers and merchants, this is both an indispensable resource and a visual feast for all students and lovers of textiles.
Extent: 192 pp
Format: Paperback
Illustrations: 241
Publication date: 2009-10-05
Size: 30.5 x 22.5 cm
ISBN: 9780500288290
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
Press Reviews
The Art Newspaper
Embroidery
Textile History
About the Author
John Guy is Curator in the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He was formerly Deputy Curator of the Indian and South-East Asian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Curator of the Indian Department at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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