The following are a selection of books on Textiles published in India. Please click on Details at the end of each entry to see the table of contents and excerpts from the preface/jacket of the individual titles. If you are looking for a particular title and you do not find it on this list, please email us at vedams@vedamsbooks.com the details and we shall procure it for you. We can supply you any title published in India on any subject.

The Art of Textile Designing/Jaspal Singh Bhatia. Jaipur, Book Enclave, 2008, vi, 290 p., figs., $45. ISBN 81-8152-210-8.  Details No. 54521

Block Printing and Dyeing of Bagru, Rajasthan/Bijoy Chandra Mohanty and Jagadish Prasad Mohanty. Ahmedabad, Calico Museum of Textiles, 1983, 108 p., plates, map, $190. (Study of Contemporary Textile Crafts of India). Details No. 30714

Chintz : Indian Textiles for the West/Rosemary Crill. Photography by Ian Thomas. Ahmedabad, Mapin Pub., 2008, 144 p., plates, map, $85. ISBN 81-89995-15-7.  Details No. 55970

Cosmo Dictionary of Dyeing and Calico Printing : Containing A Brief Account of All the Substances and Processes in Use in the Arts of Dyeing and Printing Textile Fabrics with Practical Receipts and Scientific Information/Charles O'Neill. New Delhi, Cosmo Pub., 2008, 494 p., $39. ISBN 81-307-0663-6. Details No. 54780  

Cosmo Textile Dictionary/W.L. Carmichael, George E. Linton and Isaac Price. New Delhi, Cosmo Pub., 2008, vi, 390 p., $39. ISBN 81-307-0657-1.  Details No. 54776

Costume Designing/Parul Gupta. New Delhi, MD Pub., 2008, viii, 320 p., $55. ISBN 81-7533-105-1.  Details No. 54811

Costumes and Ornaments of Chamba/Kamal Parshad Sharma and Surinder Mohan Sethi. 1997, 140 p., col. plates, $56.  Details No. 12718

Costumes of the Rulers of Mewar (With Patterns and Construction Techniques)/Pushpa Rani Mathur. 1994, 138 p., 50 colour plates, 120 line illustrations, map, $59. Details No. 9480

Dyeing Printing and Textile/M.K. Khandelwal and M.L. Chauhan. Jaipur, Ritu, 2004, v, 218 p., tables, maps, graphs, $25. ISBN 81-87445-08-4.  Details No. 37113

Elements of Fashion and Apparel Designing/Puneet Bansal. Jaipur, Book Enclave, 2008, viii, 272 p., $43. ISBN 81-8152-201-6.  Details No. 54416

Embroidery, Vol. IV, Exclusive Designs for Wedding Trousseaux/edited by Narendra Katariya. Mumbai, Monika International, 2006, 120 p., photographs, $80 (Vol. IV). Details No. 45117

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Clothing and Textiles/K.K. Maitra. New Delhi, Mittal Pub., 2007, 2 Parts, 512 p., $70 (Set). ISBN 81-8324-205-7.  Details No. 52807

Fabric Art Heritage of India/Sukla Das. 1992, 153 p., 23 col. plates, 56 b & w plates, bibliography, $59. Details No. 6945

Fabric Treasures of Andhra Pradesh/V. Suguna Sharma. Delhi, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2002, xiv, 46 p., figs., 15 plates, $39. ISBN 81-86050-96-5.   Details No. 29005

Handbook of Silk Technology/Tammanna N. Sonwalkar. 1993, 312 p., ill., $30. Details No. 7865

Handbook of Textiles/P.V. Vidyasagar. Reprint. New Delhi, Mittal, 2005, vii, 298 p., figs., $22. ISBN 81-7099-697-X.  Details No. 42416

Handcrafted Indian Textiles/edited by Martand Singh. Reprint. New Delhi, Roli, 2005, 150 p., $105. ISBN 81-7436-084-0.  Details No. 41572

Ikat Fabrics of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh: Studies in Contemporary Textile Crafts of India/Bijoy Chandra Mohanty. Reprint. Ahmedabad, Calico Museum of Textiles, 2003, iv, 212 p., 175 plates, map, $195. ISBN 81-86980-17-2.  Details No. 40668

Ikat Textiles of India/G.K. Ghosh and Shukla Ghosh. New Delhi, APH, 2000, xvi, 154 p., photos, $39. ISBN 81-7648-167-X. Details No. 15554

India Sutra on the Magic Trail of Textiles/Berenice Ellena. Gurgaon, Shubhi Pub., 2007, 238 p., ills., $140. ISBN 81-8290-088-3.  Details No. 48547

Indian Costumes in the Collection of the Calico Museum of Textiles/B.N. Goswamy and Kalyan Krishna. Patterns and technical notes by Tarla P. Dundh. 1993, viii, 397 p., 312 colored plates, patterns, b&w illustrations, $129. [Vol. V of Historic Textiles of India at the Calico Museum, series.] Details No. 8359

Indian Embroidery Techniques at the Calico Museum of Textiles/Anne Morrell. Ahmedabad, 1999, $39. ISBN 81-86980-04-0.Details No. 15251

Indian Royal Brocades from the Collection of The Calico Museum of Textiles, Ahmedabad, India. Ahmedabad, Sarabhai Foundation, 1996, 173 p., Colour plates, map, $319. Details No. 17899 

Indian Shawls : Mantles of Splendour/Asha Rani Mathur. New Delhi. Rupa and Co., 2004, 96 p., $28. ISBN 81-291-0308-7.  Details No. 35104

Indian Textiles (Past and Present)/G.K. Ghosh and Shukla Ghosh. 1995, 306 p., figs., photographs, $33.  Details No. 11322

Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth Century/Satya Prakash Sangar. 1998, vii, 236 p., $16. ISBN 81-7510-023-0 .Details No. 13826

Journal of Indian Textile History/edited by John Irwin. Reprint of the complete set (vols 1 to VII) of the Journal of Indian Textile History together with a Monograph on Printing on Cotton at Ahmedabad, 1678. 1997, 549 p., colour plates, black and white plates, $106. Details No. 13153

Jute Handlooms of India/L.V. Saptarishi. Ahmedabad, Mapin, 2000, 127 p., 120 Col. plates, $66. ISBN 81-85822-65-4. Details No. 17433

The Kashmiri Shawl : From Jamavar to Paisley/Sherry Rehman and Naheed Jafri. Ahmedabad, Mapin, 2006, 378 p., photographs, $125. ISBN 81-88204-19-6.  Details No. 43933

Khadi : The Fabric of Freedom. New Delhi, Amr Vastra Kosh Trust, 2002, 72 p., figs., $39. ISBN 81-7436-201-0. Details No. 24622

Khadi : A Historical Journey/Mukta Naik and Nupur Chaturvedi. Gurgaon, Shubi Pub., 2007, 94 p., $55. ISBN 81-8290-115-4.  Details No. 52003

Modern Technology of Textile : Dyes and Pigments/H. Panda. New Delhi, National Institute of Industrial Research, 2004, viii, 740 p., tables, $61 (pbk). ISBN 81-86623-65-5.  Details No. 38894

Natural Dyeing Processes of India/Bijoy Chandra Mohanty, K.V. Chandramouli and H.D. Naik. 1987, xiii, 284 p., map, plates (some col.), $79. Details No. 9225

Sari : The Kalakshetra Tradition/Shakuntala Ramani. Chennai, Kalakshetra Foundation, 2002, 144 p., photographs, $39. Details No. 31706

Silk Brocades/Yashodhara Agrawal. New Delhi, Roli Books, 2003, 144 p., $33. ISBN 81-7436-258-4.  Details No. 31462

Technology of Textiles : Spinning and Weaving, Dyeing, Scouring, Drying, Printing and Bleaching. Delhi, Engineers India Research Institute, 2004, xx, 524 p., figs., tables, $50 (pbk) ISBN 81-86732-48-9.  Details No. 34800

Textile Designs of the Boros of Northeast India/Rani Kakati Hazarika and Kabita Boro. Delhi, Pratibha Prakashan, 2006, x, 102 p., plates, photographs, $55. ISBN 81-7702-123-0.  Details No. 47012

Textile Testing/Jewel Raul. New Delhi, A.P.H., 2005, xiv, 266 p., figs., tables, $33. ISBN 81-7648-748-1.  Details No. 38863

Textile Tradition of Assam : Collection of Purbajyoti Sangrahalaya/compiled by Goutom Sharma and Julie Barooah. Kolkata, Indian Museum, 2006, xii, 376 p., ills., $53. Details No. 48509

Textiles, Costumes and Ornaments of the Western Himalaya/O.C. Handa. New Delhi, Indus, 1998, 312 p., $61. ISBN 81-7387-076-4. Details No. 23398

Textiles and Crafts of India : Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur. 1998, 128 p., colour plates, $59. ISBN 81-7234-021-4. Details No. 14017

Textiles from India : The Global Trade : Papers Presented at a Conference on the Indian Textile Trade, Kolkata, 12-14 October 2003/edited by Rosemary Crill. Culcutta, Seagull Books, 2006, xvi, 388 p., figs., $70. ISBN 1-9054-2-217-2.  Details No. 43043

Textiles of North Eastern India/G.K. Ghosh and Shukla Ghosh. Calcutta, Firma KLM, 2000, vii, 122 p., tables, $14. ISBN 81-7102-095-X. Details No. 26162

Threads and Voices : Behind the Indian Textile Tradition/edited by Laila Tyabji. Mumbai, Marg, 2007, viii, 136 p., figs., $85. ISBN 81-85026-79-3.  Details No. 51179

Trade, Temple and Court : Indian Textiles from the Tapi Collection/Ruth Barnes, Steven Cohen and Rosemary Crill. Mumbai, India Book House, 2002, 238 p., map, ills., $105. ISBN 81-7508-354-9.   Details No. 30089

Traditional Garments of Udaipur, Banswara and Dungarpur/Sandhya Raman, Aarti Gupta and Mini Varkey. 1992, 98 p., illustrated, $36. Details No. 14515

Traditional Textiles of Manipur/Mutua Bahadur. Imphal, Mutua Museum, 1997, 151 p., $50. Details No. 21480

Tribal Hand Woven Fabrics of Manipur/Mutua Bahadur. Imphal, Mutua Museum, 2000, 160 p., $45 (pbk). Details No. 51411

Woollen Textiles and Costumes from Bharat Kala Bhavan/Chandramani Singh and Devaki Ahivasi. Varanasi, Bharat Kala Bhavan, 1981, xii, 70 p., 10 colour plates, 93 black and white monochrome plates, 1 line plate, $45. Details No. 56144

Woven Wonder : The Tradition of Indian Textiles/AshaRani Mathur. New Delhi, Rupa & Co., 2002, 96 p., $22. ISBN 81-7167-699-5. Details No. 25833