10/01/2026
The Burlington Magazine on Chintz: Indian Cotton Textiles from the Karun Thakar Collection. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, India was the greatest exporter of textiles in the world, and chintz was among its most sought-after products, traded, copied, and even banned across Europe and Asia.
This richly illustrated volume moves through the Karun Thakar Collection in sections on Europe, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia, with essays from leading scholars. As the reviewer puts it, the book “opens doors to numerous avenues of enquiry.”
Chintz is available now. Link in bio.
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