The art of cloth in Mughal India /

When a rich man in seventeenth-century south Asia enjoyed a peaceful night's sleep, he imagined himself enveloped in a velvet sleep. In the poetic imagination of the time, the fine dew of early evening was like a thin cotton cloth from Bengal, and woolen shawls of downy pashmina sent by the Mug...

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Main Author:	Houghteling, Sylvia (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022].
Subjects:	Textile fabrics, Mogul Empire.