Author: Sushama Swarup Publisher: Roli Books ISBN: 9788174368911 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book takes a fascinating journey, connecting dates and events to the evolution of costumes, textiles, colours, motifs and ornamentations from the eighteenth century up to present-day India.
Author: Ritu Kumar Publisher: ACC Distribution ISBN: Category : Clothing and dress Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
After years of searching through dusty museum collections and royal stores across India, acclaimed designer Ritu Kumar has uncovered many of the last surviving examples of traditional royal clothing. Her book is a celebration of this rich legacy of textiles and craftsmanship. This in-depth study of the evolution of Indian royal costume spans the centuries from the first representations of clothing in ancient India, through the reign of the Mughal emperors and the days of the British Raj, to Indian independence and royalty in the present day. The author covers both men's and women's garments, Hindu and Muslim styles, and documents the evolution of European-Indian fashions. This sumptuous volume is illustrated with a variety of material, much of which has never been published before ranging from archive photographs, miniatures, royal portraits and cinema stills, to detailed images of garments and textiles from as far back as the seventeenth century. A separate section explains in detail the techniques behind the traditional crafts of weaving, dyeing, printing and embroidery, with sketches and patterns illustrating a variety of garments. Specially commissioned photographs of members of royalty wearing their traditional clothes emphasise the colour, shape, ornament and texture of these stunning costumes. This royal family album is supplemented by stories of royal India told to the author by the last Rajmatas who still remember the splendours of courtly life. AUTHOR: Ritu Kumar is one of India's foremost designers, who has developed a unique style combining the ancient traditions of Indian craftsmanship with contemporary innovations. She began her work many years ago in a small village near Calcutta with just four hand-block printers and a couple of tables. 360 colour & 100 b/w illustrations
Author: Jamila Brij Bhushan Publisher: Bombay : Taraporevala's Treasure House of Books ISBN: Category : Clothing and dress Languages : en Pages : 382
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This survey of Indian dress examines ancient Indian attire, the Muslim period, modern dress, types of embroidery, dyes, prints, various weaves, and the textile industry today.
Author: A. Biswas Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting ISBN: 8123025645 Category : Languages : en Pages : 243
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Indian Costumes provides a brief survey of how our people dressed themselves in the past and how they now dress themselves in the different regions of this country
Author: Lotika Varadarajan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Clothing and dress in art Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
This is a worthy addition to the publications of the National Museum, New Delhi. The novelty of the textile collection in the National Museum is that unlike the Indian Museum, Kolkata and the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Jaipur, it has no heritage collections upon which it can draw. This has its advantages. The collections based on gifts and purchase offer a heterogeneity which a scholar can utilize while alluding to the continuity between the past and present. As the catalogue is devoted to the master pieces of the costume from the collection, pagris, head gear have not been included and the same applies to the unstitched garment, the sari. However, India has a vast continuum from which it is possible to elicit information and the costume collection mirrors this.0While Lotika Varadarajan, as Tagore Fellow, brings her wide knowledge of textiles to bear on the subject, Sushmit Sharma adds another dimension to the work by his understanding of visual language in its many dimensions. This has opened up further avenues of investigation adding additional depth to the subject. The work has been envisaged keeping in mind the transformation of the role of museum in modern times from being geared to the needs of a research scholar to that of translating works of art into quotidian language.
Author: Sushama Swarup
Author: Ritu Kumar
Author: Henry Frederick Lutz
Author: Henry F. Lutz
Author: Jamila Brij Bhushan
Author: Christie's South Kensington, Ltd
Author: Jamila Brij BHUSHAN
Author: A. Biswas
Author: Lotika Varadarajan
Author: Yashodhara Agrawal