Writing on Textiles

Spinning for Freedom: On How Viewing Khadi as Theatre Unravels the Narrative of Mahatma Gandhi, Vestoj: the Journal of Sartorial Matters, Issue Five, 2015.

Producing Freedom: Khadi as Theater, in Mantles of Myth: the Narrative in Indian Textiles, Pramod K.G., ed. Jaipur: Siyahi, in press.

From the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Textile Arts of Bhutan (Serindia and Peabody Essex Museum, 2008) is available from Amazon and the Peabody Essex Museum Shop

From the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Textile Arts of Bhutan (Serindia and Peabody Essex Museum, 2008) is available from Amazon and the Peabody Essex Museum Shop

From the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Textile Arts of Bhutan, co-edited with Diana K. Myers. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2008 [1994].

Bengal Goods for America, the Nineteenth Century, in Textiles from India: the Global Trade. Rosemary Crill, ed. Pp. 217-232. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2006.

Craft and Dress, in South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia, Margaret A. Mills, Peter J. Claus, and Sarah Diamond, eds. Pp. 125-127 and 169-170. New York: Routledge, 2003.

On the Indian Origins of the Bandanna, Antiques Magazine. December, Pp. 832-839, 1999.

Bandanna: On the Indian Origins of an All-American Textile, in Peter Benes, ed., Textiles in Early New England: Design, Production, and Consumption. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings 1997. Pp. 168-183. Boston: Boston University, 1999.

Freedom Homespun, Asian Art and Culture 9(2): 53-67, 1994.  Summary published in The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1995. Condensed as The Fabric of Independence, in Parabola, Fall 1996.

The American Market for Indian Textiles, 1785-1820: In the Twilight of Traditional Cloth Manufacture, in M. Gittinger, ed., Textiles in Trade. Pp.43-52. Proceedings of the Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium, 1990.

Gandhi and Khadi: the Fabric of Indian Nationalism, in Annette Weiner and Jane Schneider, eds., Cloth in Human Experience. Pp. 356-365. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1989. In Japanese:  Khadi: The Cloth of Indian Nationalism, in Cloth and Human Experience (Japanese). Tokyo: Domesu Shuppan, 1995, and reprinted in The Textile Reader. Jessica Hemmings, ed. London: Berg, 2012.

Spinning Independence, in Michael Meister, ed., Making Things in South Asia.,  Proceedings of the South Asia Seminar IV: 174-184. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania,1988.

The Fabric of Social Life in Pre-British Mysore, Journal of the Mythic Society LXXVII(1&2): 79-87, Bangalore, 1986.

Costumes from India: Catalogue of the Costume Institute Collection (manuscript). Metropolitan Museum of Art: Costume Institute Library, 1983.

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