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Title:Common Threads: Fabrics Made-in-India for Africa
Authors:Venkatachalam, MeeraISNI
Modi, RenuISNI
Salazar, Johann
Year:2020
Issue:76
Pages:154
Language:English
Series:African Studies Collection (ISSN 1876-0198)
City of publisher:Leiden
Publisher:African Studies Centre
ISBN:9789054481799
Geographic terms:Africa
India
Subjects:textiles
textile industry
External link:https://hdl.handle.net/1887/120547
Abstract:Common Threads explores the ties that bind India and Africa through the material medium of cloth, from antiquity to the present. Cloth made in India has been sold across African markets for millennia, by Indian, African, and European traders. The history of this trade offers perspectives into the rich stories of bi-directorial migrations of peoples, across the Indian Ocean, the exchange of visual aesthetics, and the co-production of cultures in the two geographies. Common Threads uses photographs to tell the story of the creation of these textiles in India, which today is concentrated in the small town of Jetpur in the Rajkot district of Cujarat. It sheds light on the artists and the agencies in India that are involved in the design, production, and logistics of this enterprise. Most significantly, it highlights the role of African consumers in defining the evolution of these genres of fabric, and the centrality of people-to-people connections in sustaining the continued cosmopolitanism of these transoceanic connectivities.
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