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Textiles of Southeast Asia : tradition, trade, and transformation

Traditional textiles are one of the most important and widely collected categories of Southeast Asian art. Formed from an extensive range of locally produced and imported raw materials and an astonishing variety of techniques, Southeast Asian textiles are used to fashion a variety of objects-items from everyday clothing to sacred and ceremonial regalia. This authoritative study considers the various ways Southeast Asian textile artisans reacted over the centuries to the steady stream of new ideas and materials arriving from India, China, the Islamic world, and Europe. Originally published in 1

eBook, English, 2003
Periplus ; Tuttle Pub. [distributor], [Hong Kong], North Clarendon, VT, 2003