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The dazzlingly varied cloths presented in this book are the visual record of one of the great stories of Asian design history: the trade in Indian textiles to Southeast and East Asia. John Guy examines the history of the cloth-for-spices trade, focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries when the thousand-year-old trade was at is peak. With beautiful photographs of the textiles themselves (outstanding among them the famous cotton chintzes and the tie-and-dye silk patola), illuminating images of people and places, and vivid first-hand descriptions by travellers and merchants, this is both an indispensable resource and a visual feast for all students and lovers of textiles.

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'One of the great stories of Asian design history ... The text is supported by beautiful photography, vivid first-hand descriptions and historic images' - Embroidery 'Accessible and intricately researched ... groundbreaking' - The Art Newspaper 'The fullest account of the vast Asian trade in Indian textiles to have been produced so far ... accessible yet authoritative' - Textile History

'The fullest account of the vast Asian trade in Indian textiles to have been produced so far … accessible yet authoritative' - Textile History 'Accessible and intricately researched … groundbreaking' - The Art Newspaper 'One of the great stories of Asian design history … The text is supported by beautiful photography, vivid first-hand descriptions and historic images' - Embroidery

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John Guy is Curator in the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He was formerly Deputy Curator of the Indian and South-East Asian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Curator of the Indian Department at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

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