Indian Textiles in the East: From Southeast Asia to Japan Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Indian Textiles in the East: From Southeast Asia to Japan Book

Featuring dazzlingly varied cloths, this book presents a visual record of one of the great stories of Asian design history: the trade in Indian textiles to Southeast and East Asia. It also 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.Read More

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  • Foyles

    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.

  • Blackwell

    An ingenious new presentation of an old history.-Fiberarts 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.

  • 0500288291
  • 9780500288290
  • John Guy
  • 5 October 2009
  • Thames & Hudson
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
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