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The Art of Cloth in Mughal India (Hardcover)
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The Art of Cloth in Mughal India (Hardcover)
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A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal Empire In
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles
circulated throughout the Mughal Empire. Made from rare fibers and
crafted using virtuosic techniques, these exquisite objects
animated early modern experience, from the intimate, sensory
pleasure of garments to the monumentality of imperial tents. The
Art of Cloth in Mughal India tells the story of textiles crafted
and collected across South Asia and beyond, illuminating how cloth
participated in political negotiations, social conversations, and
the shared seasonal rhythms of the year. Drawing on small-scale
paintings, popular poetry, chronicle histories, and royal inventory
records, Sylvia Houghteling charts the travels of textiles from the
Mughal imperial court to the kingdoms of Rajasthan, the Deccan
sultanates, and the British Isles. She shows how the "art of cloth"
encompassed both the making of textiles as well as their creative
uses. Houghteling asks what cloth made its wearers feel, how it
acted in space, and what images and memories it conjured in the
mind. She reveals how woven objects began to evoke the natural
environment, convey political and personal meaning, and span the
distance between faraway people and places. Beautifully
illustrated, The Art of Cloth in Mughal India offers an
incomparable account of the aesthetics and techniques of cloth and
cloth making and the ways that textiles shaped the social,
political, religious, and aesthetic life of early modern South
Asia.
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