Chintz, Indian Textiles for the West (First Edition)
CRILL, Rosemary. Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West. London: V&A Publishing / New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2008.
Quarto (30.5 x 26 cm). Red publisher's cloth lettered in white to spine. Colour illustrated dust jacket. 143 pp., illustrated throughout with 160 colour plates and a colour map. First edition.
The word "chintz" has drifted so far from its origins that it now conjures little more than a vague image of floral curtain fabric. This book restores to it an altogether more vivid history. Rosemary Crill, writing as senior curator of the V&A's Asian Department, traces the fabric back to its source: the workshops of southeast India's Coromandel Coast, where craftsmen using hand-drawn mordant and resist-dyeing techniques produced textiles of an intricacy and colourfastness that no European manufacturer could match.
From the early seventeenth century, these cloths flooded into Europe through the East India trade and promptly caused social and economic havoc — inspiring import bans, riots, the literal stripping of clothing from fashionable backs, and ultimately the industrial revolution in printed cotton that transformed European domestic interiors forever. Crill's text is lucid and scholarly; the plates, drawn from the V&A's exceptional collection and many published here in full colour for the first time, are magnificent.
A pristine copy, fine in an unclipped fine dust jacket.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000454
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Description
CRILL, Rosemary. Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West. London: V&A Publishing / New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2008.
Quarto (30.5 x 26 cm). Red publisher's cloth lettered in white to spine. Colour illustrated dust jacket. 143 pp., illustrated throughout with 160 colour plates and a colour map. First edition.
The word "chintz" has drifted so far from its origins that it now conjures little more than a vague image of floral curtain fabric. This book restores to it an altogether more vivid history. Rosemary Crill, writing as senior curator of the V&A's Asian Department, traces the fabric back to its source: the workshops of southeast India's Coromandel Coast, where craftsmen using hand-drawn mordant and resist-dyeing techniques produced textiles of an intricacy and colourfastness that no European manufacturer could match.
From the early seventeenth century, these cloths flooded into Europe through the East India trade and promptly caused social and economic havoc — inspiring import bans, riots, the literal stripping of clothing from fashionable backs, and ultimately the industrial revolution in printed cotton that transformed European domestic interiors forever. Crill's text is lucid and scholarly; the plates, drawn from the V&A's exceptional collection and many published here in full colour for the first time, are magnificent.
A pristine copy, fine in an unclipped fine dust jacket.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000454
