Indian Textiles in the East: From Southeast Asia to Japan

The dazzlingly varied cloths presented in this book are the visual record of one of the great stories of Asian design history.

John Guy has produced a brilliant account of the Indian textile trade in examining the cloth-for-spices trade, focusing on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when the thousand-year-old trade was at its peak.

With beautiful photographs of the textiles themselves (outstanding among them the famous cotton chintzes and tie-and-dye silks), illuminating images of people and places, and vivid first-hand descriptions by travellers and merchants, this is both an indispensible resource and a visual feast for students and lovers of textiles.

Contents:
Textiles, Culture and Spices
Techniques and Production Centres
Indian Cloth and International Trade
The Asian Trade before European Intervention
The Malay World
Indonesia
'Cloths in the Fashion of Siam'
China
'Strange Painteinges': The Japan Trade
Notes
Bibliography
Radiocarbon-Dated Indian Textiles
Glossary
Illustration Credits and Notes
Index