Introduction : luxury textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and neighbouring territories (fourteenth to sixteenth centuries) : a conceptual investigation / Bart Lambert and Katherine Anne Wilson -- Consumption of luxury textiles. 'In a chamber, in a garderobe, in a chest' : the possession and...

Cotton textiles of every sort - fine, superfine and coarse - were once manufactured in abundance in the province of Bengal. The produce of the looms not only fully met the internal demand of her population but was also exported to distant lands where it was held in high esteem. The extraordinary...

This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites-from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as cotton) or place (such as...