India - Art & Crafts

Crafts Calico museum, Ahmadabad, Gujarat – taking the earlier of 2 daily tours.  One of the best museums we’ve found – covering all aspects of textile design and production.  Excellent displays showing how various weaves are done.  For the 16^th-18^th centuries, Europe was an importer of finished goods from India.  Significantly, the earlier work is the more elaborate and complex.  For export, the Portuguese contracted for elaborate embroideries, while later East India Company moved to block printing.  One room is rigged to resemble part of a Mogul tent camp, with actual remains, and reconstructions.  Mogul tents, all woven [why is there a tent for Ganges water in mogul camp diagram?].   There’s a separate pan leaf tent, artillery tent, along with the tents for cooking, the harem.  A museum not to be missed. 

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