Cloth That Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz - Hardcover

 
9780300246797: Cloth That Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 030024679X ISBN 13: 9780300246797
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

The story of India’s exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world

Chintz, a type of multicolored printed or painted cotton cloth, originated in India yet exerted influence far beyond its home shores: it became a driving force of the spice trade in the East Indies, and it attracted European merchants, who by the 17th century were importing millions of pieces. In the 18th century, Indian chintz became so coveted globally that Europeans attempted to imitate its uniquely vibrant dyes and design—a quest that eventually sparked the mechanical and business innovations that ushered in the Industrial Revolution, with its far-reaching societal impacts.

This beautifully illustrated book tells the fascinating and multidisciplinary stories of the widespread desire for Indian chintz over 1,000 years to its latest resurgence in modern fashion and home design. Based on the renowned Indian chintz collections held at the Royal Ontario Museum, the book showcases the genius of Indian chintz makers and the dazzling variety of works they have created for specialized markets: religious and court banners for India, monumental gilded wall hangings for elite homes in Europe and Thailand, luxury women’s dress for England, sacred hangings for ancestral ceremonies in Indonesia, and today’s runways of Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai.


Distributed for the Royal Ontario Museum


Exhibition Schedule:

Royal Ontario Museum
(April 4–September 27, 2020)

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Sarah Fee is senior curator of Eastern Hemisphere fashion and textiles at the Royal Ontario Museum.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
030024679X
ISBN 13 
9780300246797
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
293
Herausgeber
Fee Sarah
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