Author : Rosie Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007449992
For fans of The Tea-Planter’s Wife and Victoria Hislop comes a gripping story of doomed love and secrets in 1940s Kashmir.
Author : Joanne Dobson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : India
ISBN : 9781495442131
An epic journey from the sultry climes of nineteenth-century India to the cosmopolitan chaos of New York City on the eve of civil in search of a kidnapped daughter and a lost, forbidden love. India, 1857: Anna Wheeler Roundtree, missionary wife, flees her husband's pious tyranny. Her timing is bad: the train carrying her to freedom steams into the midst of the brutal Indian Rebellion. Plucked from danger by Ashok Montgomery, a wealthy Anglo-Indian tea planter, she escapes the angry mobs. In the shelter of an isolated mountain cave, Anna, for the first time, learns the true nature of love. New York City, 1860: Now a successful poet, Anna Wheeler learns that the daughter she bore upon her return from India was not stillborn, as reported, but has been kidnapped. When Anna hears the baby described as "dark-skinned," she knows Ashok, the man she'd left behind in the tumult of the rebellion, is the true father, not her blond, fair-skinned husband. In her own racially inflamed nation, Anna throws respectability to the wind, learns to take risks, break rules, and trust strangers in a determined search for the little girl. Then a deranged voice arises from her tormented past, making demands that compel her back to India. Anna must confront the evil that set her running in the first place. Will her daring quest for her child, and for the love of her life, end in triumph or in heartbreak?
Author : Sherry Rehman
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cashmere shawls
ISBN : 9781890206574
The authors bring fresh clarity to the many myths that have arisen around the Kashmiri shawl on the South Asian trade circuit. They also interpret most of the complexities in the Kashmiri shawl lexicon.
Author : Janet Rizvi
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Cashmere shawls
ISBN : 9789383243211
- Lavishly illustrated, the book offers a comprehensive view of pashmina, one of the most exqusite textiles ever woven - Constructs a complete narrative of the textile, from the raw material to the finished product - Covers the history for the pashmina industry from the nomadic tribes to the fashion industry The classic Kashmir shawl is among the most exquisite textiles ever woven, the product of consummate skill and artistry applied to one of the world's most delicate fibers. This authoritative study introduces the Kashmir shawl as a cultural artifact with a known history spanning four centuries. Lavishly illustrated and accessibly written, the revised edition of this book has much to offer textile scholars, and those interested in the history of Kashmir. Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction: A Felicitous Conjunction. PART I: THE FIBRE - Chapter 1: Pashm and Other Animal Fibres; Chapter 2: Changra and Changpa: The Goats and Their Herders - Monisha Ahmed; Chapter 3: From Changthang to Srinagar: The Pashm Trade. PART 2: THE TEXTILE - Chapter 4: Spinners, Weavers, and Needleworkers; Chapter 5: Design and Designers. PART 3: THE HISTORY - Chapter 6: Early History: Conjecture and Speculation; Chapter 7: The Mughal Period; Chapter 8: The Iran Connection: The Termeh; Chapter 9: The Business in the 19th Century. PART 4: BY LAND AND SEA - Chapter 10: The Kashmir Shawl in India; Chapter 11: The Kashmir Shawl in Iran, West Asia, and Russia; Chapter 12: Shawls in the West. PART 5: CASHMERE AND KASHMIR - Chapter 13: Beyond the Shawl: Pashmina Becomes Cashmere; Chapter 14: Meanwhile, Back in the Valley. Appendix I Update 2008-17; Appendix II Myths, Misconceptions, and Oddities; Appendix III Terminology and Glossary; Notes and References; Bibliography; Picture Credits; Index.
Author : Grace Beardsley
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0915703602
Author : Frank Ames
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Author : John Irwin
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Author : Philip Van Ness Myers
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Babylon (Extinct city)
ISBN :
Author : Jenny Housego
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8194295998
Richly layered and remarkably candid, this is anything but an ordinary memoir. Life-writing at its truthful and unapologetic best, here is a story of a textile historian, entrepreneur and collector with an eventful and adventurous life story. As a child in countryside England, Jenny had thought she would grow up to be a spy, but life had other plans. Brought to the world of Asian textiles, art and museums, she has over the last five decades travelled across Asia with a passion to document traditional, local, and nomadic weaves and handcrafted textiles. She lays bare her idyllic childhood in the aftermath of the Second World War; her aspirations of being in the arts and then as a researcher at the Victoria and Albert museum in London; the struggles of falling in and out of love and a broken marriage; of parenting; and her passion for Indian textiles, having established herself as one of the most successful British entrepreneurs working in India who co-founded the luxury brands shades of India and kashmir loom.
Author : Parviz Nemati
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Cashmere shawls
ISBN :
