This book celebrates India's spectacular textile art. It takes the reader on a visual odyssey spanning 500 years, tracing the images created on cloth for India's magnificent courts and temples, as well as for more distant but not less discerning patrons in Europe and Asia. It showcases the motifs and colours of some of the most remarkable Indian textiles to have survived from the past.

ISBN 13: 9788189738808

ISBN 10: 8189738801

Year: 2011

Language: ENGLISH

Pages etc.: 244p,full of col ills., gloss., ind., 32cm.

Binding: Hardbound

Subject(s): Fine Arts