Threads & Voices: Behind the Indian Textile Tradition

This book features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted textile, fashion, and design media.The beauty, range, and variety of Indian textile traditions are legion, and have been renowned throughout the world for centuries."Threads & Voices" offers a unique perspective of these traditio [...]
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This book features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted textile, fashion, and design media.The beauty, range, and variety of Indian textile traditions are legion, and have been renowned throughout the world for centuries."Threads & Voices" offers a unique perspective of these traditions by interpreting them through the eyes of the contemporary craftspeople that make them and the designers they work with.With an emphasis on contemporary pieces and practices, contrasted with old heirlooms and traditions, as well as an examination of the social and economic factors affecting the industry, this sumptuously illustrated volume provides readers with a rare glimpse of a craft and its craftspeople in transition - growing, learning, sometimes triumphing.