Product Description: Including many rare and antique examples, this luxurious volume introduces readers to the intoxicating and complex beauty of Indonesian cloth.Since the 1970s Mary Hunt Kahlenberg has been building her collection of exquisite ceremonial garments and sacred textiles from throughout Indonesia's chain of tropical islands...read more

Product Description: Explores the role of and attitudes toward pilgrimage in Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the religions practiced in South Asia and includes two accounts of individual pilgrimages, one historical, the other contemporary.

Product Description: Features selections from an outstanding private collection of traditional Indian textiles that comprises exquisite export market material.

Product Description: Recognising the fundamental role both of shipping communities and the technologies crafted and shared by them, this book explores the types of ships, methods of navigation and modes of water-borne trade in the Indian Ocean region and the way they affected the development of distinctive settlements against a changing but strong sense of regional consciousness and identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Whether a dress or tapestry, textiles have appeare d in great works of two- and three-dimensional art nearly from the beginning.

Product Description: The latest volume in the Oxford Studies in Islamic Art series documents the four-year project to restore this important building. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Newberry Collection is of considerable historical importance, and the largest in the world of its kind. Most of it is medieval, dating back to the eleventh century. This catalogue is destined to become a standard work of reference for any future research into historical textiles; it includes an analysis of the history, design, function, and technique of the textiles, and will be published to coincide with a symposium and an exhibition of Textiles in Indian Ocean Trade at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, July-October 1997...read more

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Product Description: The first full examination ot these dramatic cloths.

Product Description: Dress is one of the most significant markers of gender identity, yet is only rarely explored in depth. This volume addresses the relationship between gender and dress, opening up fascinating aspects by covering a great variety of ethnographic areas reaching from Asia, Europe and Africa to North and South America...read more

Product Description: Dress is one of the most significant markers of gender identity, yet is only rarely explored in depth. This volume addresses the relationship between gender and dress, opening up fascinating aspects by covering a great variety of ethnographic areas reaching from Asia, Europe and Africa to North and South America...read more