Indian Textiles in the East: From Southeast Asia to Japan - Guy, John
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Featuring dazzlingly varied cloths, this book presents a visual record of one of the great stories of Asian design history: the trade in Indian textiles to Southeast and East Asia. It also 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.

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Featuring dazzlingly varied cloths, this book presents a visual record of one of the great stories of Asian design history: the trade in Indian textiles to Southeast and East Asia. It also 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.
Autorenporträt
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.