A Dictionary of Silk in India
Book Details
Author(s)Nesa Arumugam
PublisherAbhinav Publications
ISBN / ASIN8170175097
ISBN-139788170175094
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MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Pages: 133 (Illustrated Throughout In Color)
From Jacket
In India, silk is considered to be auspicious. The Indian bride wraps herself in a silk saree. And where adversity does not allow this, brides have been known to wear a
small token piece of silk on the wedding attire. The dead are cremated, where possible, in garments of silk. Silk is considered to be pleasing to the gods. "Silk is the
holy cloth. It is what you wear if you want to touch G0d," says Chhotalal Salvi, grand master of the Patola weaving family, the Salvis, of Gujarat. Silk is pleasing to the
gods and confers beauty and comfort to human beings.
A Dictionary of Silk in India is for anyone who would like to know something of silk and silk weaving in India. While written in laymans terms and style, the student of
textile, too, may find something of value here.
Nesa Arumugam (aka Nesa Eliezer) has a deep and abiding love for Indian textiles. As a freelance writer, she has published more than 400 articles in magazines in
Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and India. Other books published: Recipes of the Jaffna Tamils, Cooking for Jey, A Tale of Two Journeys and The Meddling Monkey and
Other Animal Tales. Also Silk Sarees of Tamil Nadu. She ran a Saree Shop (Ashwin Australia) from her home in Melbourne, Australia, for twenty years, importing the
finest traditions of Indian silks. Her many stage productions included A Dream of the Drape, the story of the saree.
Preface
I have had a long loveaffair with Silk especially with Indian silk. Over the years the fascination with the art of silk-weaving in India grew. As a person with little or no
technical knowledge of weaving or sericulture, I have, over the years, tried to learn as much as I can about this many-splendoured spit of a worm".
This glossary has been
From Jacket
In India, silk is considered to be auspicious. The Indian bride wraps herself in a silk saree. And where adversity does not allow this, brides have been known to wear a
small token piece of silk on the wedding attire. The dead are cremated, where possible, in garments of silk. Silk is considered to be pleasing to the gods. "Silk is the
holy cloth. It is what you wear if you want to touch G0d," says Chhotalal Salvi, grand master of the Patola weaving family, the Salvis, of Gujarat. Silk is pleasing to the
gods and confers beauty and comfort to human beings.
A Dictionary of Silk in India is for anyone who would like to know something of silk and silk weaving in India. While written in laymans terms and style, the student of
textile, too, may find something of value here.
Nesa Arumugam (aka Nesa Eliezer) has a deep and abiding love for Indian textiles. As a freelance writer, she has published more than 400 articles in magazines in
Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and India. Other books published: Recipes of the Jaffna Tamils, Cooking for Jey, A Tale of Two Journeys and The Meddling Monkey and
Other Animal Tales. Also Silk Sarees of Tamil Nadu. She ran a Saree Shop (Ashwin Australia) from her home in Melbourne, Australia, for twenty years, importing the
finest traditions of Indian silks. Her many stage productions included A Dream of the Drape, the story of the saree.
Preface
I have had a long loveaffair with Silk especially with Indian silk. Over the years the fascination with the art of silk-weaving in India grew. As a person with little or no
technical knowledge of weaving or sericulture, I have, over the years, tried to learn as much as I can about this many-splendoured spit of a worm".
This glossary has been
