Printing on Cotton at Ahmedabad, India in 1678
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Museum Monograph No. 1 of the Calico Museum of Textiles presents an English translation of the chapters on cotton painting and printing at Ahmedabad from Georges Roques' manuscript of 1678-80 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris), edited by Paul R. Schwartz. It covers the painters, their contracts with the company, and the preparation of the cloth: oiling, mordanting, madder and morinda (saranguy) red, indigo, and block printing. Schwartz's commentary examines the techniques, dye plants and trade, followed by extensive notes and two appendices on cloth dimensions and an index of the manuscript's subjects. Plates show Ahmedabad block-cutters and printers at work in 1968, with a map of the seventeenth-century dyestuff trade.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1969
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 40
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