Name: Embroidered Histories
Brand: Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Co.KG
SKU: 9783205202097
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Embroidered Histories

Indian Textiles for the Portuguese Market during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By (author): Barbara Karl

Published by Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Co.KG

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£71.99

Published: 08-Mar-2016
ISBN: 9783205202097

Hardback
316 Pages

Subjects:
The arts: general issues
Conservation
restoration & care of artworks
History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600
History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800
History of fashion
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900

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In the late 16th and the first half of the 17th century, private Portuguese merchants gained a foothold in India and gained direct access to local markets and textile production centers. By integrating European templates, they adapted part of the textile production in Bengal and Gujarat and thus created new, almost standardized and high quality luxury products for the European market, which this study deals with.

Dr. Barbara Karl is curator of the collection of the Textile Museum St.Gallen (CH). The focus of her research and publications is on textiles and the history of the collection against the background of the intranational cultural exchange of the early modern period up to the 19th century.