Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings - Paperback
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Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings
Textiles, embroidered with religious imagery, express lay piety in public and private shrines
This beautifully illustrated volume highlights Jain devotional textiles (choḍs) from the Ronald and Maxine Linde Collection at UCLA's Fowler Museum. Fashioned in the Indian states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, these works of velvet and sateen cloth, lavishly embroidered with gold and silver gil...
Syona Puliady is curator of textiles of the Eastern Hemisphere at the Fowler Museum at UCLA who studies textiles of the Indian Ocean realm and how they create notions of intimacy, sensuality, and spirituality, contributing to the region's cultural ethos. Lynna R. Dhanani is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis, who currently explore...
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