Irwin, John and Margaret Hall - Indian Embroideries, Volume II

Ahmedabad, India, S.R. Bastikar for Calico Museum of Textiles, 1973. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering. No dust jacket. 225 pp. with 12 color plates, tipped in, and occasional bw figures; followed by 100 bw glossy plates. Due day slip has no removal stamps. Pages appear clean, but, may have occasional instances of marks, marginalia, etc. Remains a nice, solid, ex-library copy. From the series Historic Textiles of India at the Calico Museum. Volume II only. Covers court and trade embroideries, temple hangings, gold embroideries, and 7 chapters on different regional styles: Kutch, Kathiawar, Surat, Chinai, Sindh, Panjab, Bengal, and more. With end notes, a glossary of embroidery stictches and glossary of textile terms. Includes a concordance of museum numbers and catalogue numbers. List of the color and bw plates. Good+ (ex-library w/ ID to lower spine, stamps to textblock edges, internal stamps, usual markings, etc. scuffs & scratches to boards; creasing to corners. spine-spongy, textblock firm.) .

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