Saris
Tradition and Beyond
- The most comprehensive and authoritative reference on the subject - put together after 20 years of research
- Invaluable resource for textile designers, historians, and specialists as the book gives detailed analysis on every aspect of the Sari
- Based entirely on the knowledge of the weavers and what they have carried as an inheritance from past generations
- Tells you where to go to purchase a particular sari and who to go and see
The sari is the most representative apparel of India, worn in a variety of ways. The sari is a fabric-length of varying densities in its body, borders and end pieces often woven by combining a range of cottons and silks in colours and patterns that are constantly evolving. Saris is an exhaustive overview of this fascinating unstitched garment and a cutting-edge documentation of design and all that supports it socially, culturally and economically. Travelling district-by-district, village-by-village, the book explores an entire spectrum of traditional weaver and printer settlements in fourteen sari-producing states of India. Thus emerges the first comprehensive compilation of the whole range and scale of the sari: the structures, designs, colours, the format and technology that make up the lingua of the sari. For the first time, this book offers a step-by-step guide for at least 108 ways of draping the sari, through a series of line drawings and colour photographs. A vivid account of how saris come into being for the lay reader and the specialist – be they textilists, designers, scholars or developers who will find this book equally engaging.
- Publisher
- Roli Books
- ISBN
- 9788174363749
- Published
- 6th Dec 2019
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- World excluding Oceania, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
- Size
- 307 mm x 314 mm
- Pages
- 276 Pages
- Illustrations
- 1352 color, 825 b&w
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