附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index.
Textiles, culture and spices -- Techniques and production centres -- Indian cloth and international trade -- The Asian trade before European intervention -- The Malay world -- Indonesia -- 'Clothes in the fashion of Siam' -- China -- 'Strange painteinges': the Japan trade -- Radiocarbon-dated Indian textiles -- Glossary.
摘要:The dazzling cloths presented in this book are the visual record of one of the great untold stories of Asian design history: the trade in Indian textiles to Southeast and East Asia. Outstanding among them are the patterned cottons - the famous chintzes - and the tie-dyed silk patola, reserved for rulers and the nobility. John Guy examines the history of the cloth-for-spices trade, describes the techniques of textile production, and then looks in detail at the place of imported cloths in the Malay world, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan. The historical focus is on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the trade was at its peak.
