Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rome and India : early Indian cotton textiles from Berenike, Red Sea coast of Egypt / John Peter Wild and Felicity Wild
  • Far-flung fabrics
  • Indian textiles in ancient maritime trade / Himanshu Prabha Ray
  • 'Portuguese' carpets from Khorasan, Persia / Steven Cohen
  • Textile as commodity, dress as text : Swahili kanga and women's statements / David Parkin
  • The kofia tradition of Zanzibar : the implicit and explicit discourses of men's head-dress in an Indian Ocean society / Zulfikar Hirji
  • Ze mañeva aze : looking for patterns in Malagasy cloth / Sarah Fee
  • Cosmopolitan tastes and indigenous designs
  • virtual cloth in a Javanese candi / Mary-Louise Totton
  • Textiles of Jambi (Sumatra) and the Indian Ocean trade / Fiona Kerlogue
  • Moving between cultures : textiles as a source of innovation in Kedang, eastern Indonesia / Ruth Barnes.