CONTENTS: Foreword by Rosemary Crill, Introduction to the Project by Darshan Shah, Introduction to the Book-Sonia Ashmore, Thrthankar Roy & Niaz Zaman, SECTION I BENGAL AND BEYOND: 1.1. The Iistorical Geography of Bengal-Robert Ivermee, 1.2. Bengal Textiles: A Global Demand-Jayati Bhattacharya, Catalogue 1A Textile Maps of Bengal-Subham China, SECTION II RAW MATERIALS: 2.1. Bengal Cotton: A World Commodity-Sonia Ashmore, 2.2. Silks from Bengal: Production and Dissemination-Karolina Hutkova, 2.3. The Golden Fibre-Gordon T Stewert, 2.4. The Blue Dye-Ghulam A Nadri, Catalogue 2A Sir Thomas Wardle and Fabrics Dyhed with Indian Dyes-Debasmita Dutta Pramanick, Manas Bhaumik and Sushreya Pal, Catalogue 2B Bhagalpuri Silk-Moumita Ghosh, Catalogue 2C Embroidered Paintings of Bengal-Ankan Kazi SECTION III THE WORLD OF THE BENGALI TEXTILE WORKER: 3.1. Weavers, Gomastas and the Compoany-Hameeda Hossain with cotributions by Weavers Studio Resource Centre and Moushumi Ghosh,3.2. Spinning a Yarn: Women Spinners of Bengal-Chandra Mukhopadhyay, 3.3. The Forced Migration of Skills-Subham China, 3.4. Weaving Memories of Miration 1947-1971-Nilay Kumar Basak, Bhaskar Das and Debashish Mahalanobish, Catalogue 3B Jamdani in Dhaka, Tanda and Banaras: Similarities and Differences-Anjan Chakraverty, Catalogue 3C Balaposh: The Royal Quilt from Murshidabad-Partho Kar, SECTION IV DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: 4.1. Paradigm Shift: Technology and Industrialization-Indrajit Ray, 4.2. Muslin: From Loom to Fashion-Sonia Ashmore, 4.3. Murshidabad: A Textile Hub-Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 4.4. Jain Merchants in Murshidabad-Pawan Jain, 4.5. De-Industrialization-Tirthankar Roy, 4.6. Swadeshi and Bengal Textiles-Bessie Cecil, 4.7. Ethnic Textiles of the Lower Bengal Delta-Niaz Zaman, 4.8. Tracing Transitions: Tribal Textiles Along the Border of Bengal and Assam-Anna-Louise Meynell, Catalogue 4A Textile Labels from Bengal-Radhi Parekh, Catalogue 4B-Swatches from Bengal and Manchesterr: A Microscopie Analysis-Alka Raman, Catalogue 4C Dressing the Clay Models of Krishnanagar-Arthur MacGregor, Catalogue 4D Batik and Nandalal Bose: A Painted Cloth-Umang Huthessing, Catalogue 4E The Art of Gamchha Weaving in Bangladesh: A Tradition Rooted in Diversity-Shahid Hussain Shamim, SECTION V TRADE: 5.5. Bengal Commissions: Colchas for the Ibero-European Markets-Barbara Karl, 5.2. The Dutch Textile Trade-Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis and Byapti Sur, 5.3. Farashdanga: The French Episode-Lenny Hodges, 5.4. British Colonial Empire and Textile Trade-Kazuo Kobayashi, 5.5. Insatiable Demand: The Danish Norwegian Trade from Bengal-Vibe Maria Martens, 5.6. The Impact of Bengal Textiles in America-Susan S Bean, Catalogue 5A. Patron Textiles in Bengal, 5A-i Pachha-pere Banarasi Sari: Bengali Taste on Banarasi Looms-Swati Agarwal, 5A-ii. Kashmir Shawls in Bengal: Patrons, Fashion and Trade-Darshan Shah, 5A-iii Begumbahar: Sheer Evening Saris for Bengali Elites-Ruby Palchoudhuri, SECTION VI CONSUMPTION: Index,Acknowledgements. About Weavers Studio Research Centre, The Contributors. 360pp.,