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Gift of conquerors: hand papermaking in India

by  Alexandra Soteriou

Table Of Contents

  • The roots of Indian paper
  • Preserving the world
  • The Arabs liberate paper secrets
  • A prospering paper craft
  • The path of paper
  • Conquerors and craftsmen
  • Paper's Northwestern frontier
  • Paper in the Northeastern crescent
  • Delhi: days of papermaking
  • Western India's wave of paper
  • The deccan: Middle India
  • Making traditional Indian paper
  • The materials of paper
  • The mould: the papermaker's Ally
  • Creating the paper sheet
  • Drying paper in India's warm domain
  • Coating paper with size
  • Hand polishing paper sheets
  • Colouring paper
  • Paper of gold
  • Bird paper
  • Masterful marbled papers, stencils and cut-paper
  • The strange transparent deer and snake paper
  • Recycled paper: an Indian tradition
  • Using everyday resource
  • Paper mache
  • Mountain paper
  • In search of Indian paper's lost himalayan roots
  • The strong lustrous plant of high mountain paper
  • Making mountain paper
  • The mysterious "Big-Paper" of the north
  • Pundit paper
  • Influences toward change: contemporary handmade paper
  • Encounters with the west
  • Jailhouse paper
  • Gandhian efforts to help rescue papermakers
  • Government rescue for papermakers
  • 1990s turn around: an unpredicted blossoming of traditional and contemporary paper units throughout India

Subject

Description and travel / Papermaking / India

Details

Published Middletown, NJ : Grantha Corporation, 1999
Language English
Material 246 p.
ISBN 0944142567
Location
TS 1095 .I5 S717 1999 C.1
TCDC Bangkok - General Collection
TS 1095 .I5 S717 1999 C.2
TCDC Khon Kaen - Closed Stack

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