Includes bibliographical references and index. All pieces in the exhibition are owned by the Royal Ontario Museum. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Ontario Museum from April 4, 2020 to September 27, 2020.
Contents:
Part 1. India and the origins of chintz. Indian chintz : cotton, colour, desire / Sarah Fee ; In praise of cottons / Renuka Reddy ; Creating for India : printed and painted cottons for India's courts, villages, and Temples -- Part 2. Global desire for Indian chintz. Early Indian textiles in Egypt / Ruth Barnes ; The specialized markets of Western Asia : Iran and Armenia / Steven J. Cohen ; Indian textiles for the lands below the winds : the trade with maritime Southeast Asia / Ruth Barnes ; The specialized markets of South and Southeast Asia : Thailand and Sri Lanka / Steven J. Cohen ; Sarasa in Japan : hybridity and globalized dyed cotton / Peter Lee ; spreading desire, linking the world : Pintadoes and the Portuguese, 1500-1850 / Joao Teles E. Cunha and Maria Joao Ferreira ; A revolution in the bedroom : chintz interiors in the West / Rosemary Crill ; Fashioning Chintz : for the West in the eighteenth century / Alexandra Palmer ; The flowers of Indo-European chintz / Deborah Metsger -- Part 3. The consequences of desire. The flowering family tree of Indian chintz / Sarah Fee ; Perfecting the printed pattern : edo period manuals for emulating chintz / Max Dionisio ; Origins in entanglement : connections between English crewel embroidery and Indian chintz / Sylvia Houghteling ; How chintz changed the world / Giorgio Riello ; Refashioning Indian Chintz in the European manner / Philip A. Sykas ; Printing in green / Hanna E. H. Martinsen ; Knowing Chintz : Indian printed cotton, 1850-1900 / Deepali Dewan -- Part 4. Creating for the contemporary world. Ruptures, continuations, and innovations : on contemporary Kalamkari making in Southern India / Rajarshi Sengupta ; Textiles in bloom : block-print revival and contemporary fashion in Northwestern India / Eiluned Edwards ; Sarah clothes : bringing India to Canada, 1975-1966 / Alexandra Palmer ; Fashion : a future for printed and painted textiles? / Divia Patel.
Summary:
"This beautifully illustrated book tells the fascinating and multidisciplinary stories of the widespread desire for Indian chintz over 1,000 years to its latest resurgence in modern fashion and home design. Based on the renowned Indian chintz collections held at the Royal Ontario Museum, the book showcases the genius of Indian chintz makers and the dazzling variety of works they have created for specialized markets: religious and court banners for India, monumental gilded wall hangings for elite homes in Europe and Thailand, luxury women's dress for England, sacred hangings for ancestral ceremonies in Indonesia, and today's runways of Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai."-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.