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"This beautifully illustrated book tells the fascinating and multidisciplinary stories of the widespread desire for Indian chintz over 1,000 years to its latest resurgence in modern fashion and home design. Based on the renowned Indian chintz collections held at the Royal Ontario Museum, the book showcases the genius of Indian chintz makers and the dazzling variety of works they have created for specialized markets: religious and court banners for India, monumental gilded wall hangings for elite homes in Europe and Thailand, luxury women's dress for England, sacred hangings for ancestral ceremonies in Indonesia, and today's runways of Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai."--
Chintz --- Textile fabrics --- Textile design --- Textiles et tissus --- Crafts. --- Chintz. --- Textile design. --- Textile fabrics. --- Design. --- Textilien. --- History --- Histoire --- Dessins --- Royal Ontario Museum --- Royal Ontario Museum. --- India. --- Ontario --- Indien.
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This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites—from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as cotton) or place (such as India) to provide a fresh, expansive perspective of the ocean as an “interaction-based arena,” with an internal dynamism and historical coherence forged by material exchange and human relationships. Contributors map shifting social, cultural and commercial circuits to chart the many histories of cloth across the region. They also trace these histories up to the present with discussions of contemporary trade in Dubai, Zanzibar, and Eritrea. Richly illustrated, this collection brings together new and diverse strands in the long story of textiles in the Indian Ocean, past and present.
Asia-History. --- Civilization-History. --- World history. --- Ethnology-Asia. --- Asian History. --- Cultural History. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- Asian Culture. --- Universal history --- History --- Asia—History. --- Civilization—History. --- Ethnology—Asia. --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- History. --- Asia. --- Asia
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