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Item Details
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INDIAN TEXTILES IN THE EAST
FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA TO JAPAN |
| By: |
John Guy |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£19.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0500288291 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780500288290 |
| Publisher: |
THAMES & HUDSON LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2009 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
241 illustrations, 145 in colour |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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