Sari to Sarong: Five Hundred Years of Indian and Indonesian Textile Exchange (2003)
Drawn from the National Gallery’s extensive collection of silks, cottons, batiks, gold brocades, tie-dyes and embroideries, this book features some of the greatest surviving examples of traditional Indian and Indonesian textiles. Traversing the Indian Ocean via sailors and merchants, priests and warriors, these textiles feature Ramayana epics, elephant and camel processions, trading ships and floral designs. Sari to sarong documents the remarkable exchange of ideas, materials, design and imagery (royal and religious) which has occurred between the two great cultures of India and Indonesia.
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Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, ©2003
Format: vii, 216 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
ISBN : 0642541132 9780642541130
OCLC : 53346597
Table of contents
Table of contents
Maritime silk routes: an introduction to Indian and Indonesian exchanges
Mandala and Mahabharata: the lasting impact of Indian religious and philosophical imagery
Gold, glory and glamour: textiles in the Indonesian royal courts
The fabric of trade: Indian textiles
Creative exchanges: Indian textiles and Indonesian responses
Maps of India and Indonesia.
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Niessen, Sandra. “Review.” Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde 161, no. 2/3 (2005): 385-87. Accessed January 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/27868247.
