Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The history of textile production
  • 2. The materials. Dyes
  • Yarn
  • 3. The techniques of textile decoration. Handwoven textiles
  • Resist dyeing
  • Printing and painting
  • 4. The West. Embroidery
  • Appliqué
  • Beadwork
  • Ply-split camel girths of western Rajasthan
  • Block printing
  • Printed and painted textiles
  • Tie-and-dye work
  • Brocade weaving
  • 5. Pakistan. Sind
  • Punjab
  • North-West Frontier Province and the North
  • Baluchistan
  • 6. The North. Punjab and Haryana
  • Jammu and Kashmir
  • Himachal Pradesh
  • Uttar Pradesh
  • 7. The East. Bengal and Bihar
  • Assam and the Hill states of the North-East
  • Orissa
  • 8. Bangladesh
  • Jamdani weaving
  • Kantha quilting
  • 9. The South. Ikats of Andhra Pradesh
  • Kalamkari work of South-Eastern India
  • The silk industry of Kanchipuram
  • Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra
  • Banjara embroidery
  • 10. Sri Lanka.