offered as a complete collection to curators and collectors
Most of the 49 pieces in this group I collected more than 25 years ago in Indonesia. These are divided by ‘taste’ of the region they were found, with Sulawesi and Sumatra being of primary importance. The collection also includes textiles found in, or to the taste of, Thailand, Japan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Persia, and Europe, plus an exceptional block printed cloth from Kashgar, West China. Added to this, is an extremely rare group of historic fragments from Fustat, Egypt, that came out more than a century ago.
It was my goal to bring together a survey of the range of Indian Trade Cloths (ITC), inclusive of early Gujarati block prints and hand-painted mordant and resist dyed cloths from the Coromandel Coast. Created in India for export often more than 250 years ago, these textiles served as currency in exchange for spices and other trade goods and are now recognized as important aesthetic and art historical documents of world exploration and trade.
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