Product Description: This intriduction to the Hindu deities is illustrated with 19th-century Indian miniatures. An introduction outlines the Hindu religion and culture in India and captions with each picture explain the god or goddess depicted.

Product Description: The first full treatment of Pakistani textiles. Fascinating overview from the earliest evidence (ca.5000 BC) to the present day, illustrated in full colour with many field photographs. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume deals in depth with Indian textiles in the ikat technique. It is based on the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of ikats from all over India, many of which date from the mid-19th century, and represent aspects of weaving and dyeing that no longer survive in their places of origin...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Covers embroidery from many different regions of India, ranging from the elaborate floral designs of the Mughal court to vibrant folk patterns embellished with cowrie shells and mirrors. Stunning illustrations show the richness and variety of Indian textile traditions. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Marwar is the historic name for the large area of western Rajasthan that includes much of the formidable Thar desert as well as many smaller towns and villages. At their capital in Jodhpur, the Rathor clan of Rajputs who ruled Marwar, developed a strikingly individual style of painting which was interpreted in a host of different ways by local artists in the many small fiefdoms (thikanas) that were the ancestral lands of the Rathor nobility...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Some 150 pieces, from the tropics to the Arctic circle, from the plains of India to the mountains of Montenegro, have been chosen to illustrate how different cultures create their regional and national costume. The garments range from the ceremonial to the everyday, and display a breathtaking richness of detail: rows of ornamental buttons, embroidered patterns, intricate pleating and stitching, flamboyant fringes and tassels that define and decorate at one and the same time...read more

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

Product Description: This volume of essays by friends and colleagues of curator Robert Skelton, focuses on the arts of the Mughal period, and includes new work on paintings of the Mughal and regional courts, as well as their decorative arts and architectural decoration.

Contributed papers presented at a conference 'Sutra: Thread, Ties, and Transformations- two thousand years of textile trade between the Indian sub-continent and the world' held at Calcutta in October 2003.

Product Description: The Victoria and Albert Museum owns one of the most respected Islamic art collections in the world, housed in the newly created Jameel Gallery. In this fascinating book, members of the team who worked on the project describe the history of the gallery and its collections, the curatorial processes involved in configuring the displays, and the creation of an exciting design for the gallery...read more

Product Description: Over the past hundred years, “chintz” has come to mean any floral printed furnishing fabric, usually made of cotton, and often glazed. Its origins as a hand-drawn and dyed fabric from India are often forgotten, but it is with these rare earlier chintzes that this book is concerned...read more

Product Description: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is the world’s greatest museum of art and design, with a vast collection that been an unparalleled resource for designers for 150 years.This new series of pattern books presents the range of the V&A’s superb collections...read more

Product Description: East and West intersect in this gorgeous exploration of South Asian textiles and their influence on British fashion and dress. From 17th-century chintzes to 19th-century silks and paisleys to the oriental­ism craze of the 1960s, these lush, patterned fabrics have long had an impact on Western style...read more

Product Description: This first book to fully explore the opulent art and refined lifestyle of Lucknow showcases cultural diversity at its most magnificent.Lucknow was a cosmopolitan Indo-Islamic-European capital in northern India that flourished in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...read more