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THE
TEXTILE MANUFACTURES AND COSTUMES
*
OF THE
PEOPLE OE INDIA.
INTRODUCTION.
Specimens of all the important Textile Manufactures of India existing in the
stores of the India Museum have been collected in eighteen large volumes, of which
twenty sets have been prepared, each set being, as nearly as possible, an exact counter-
part of all the others. The eighteen volumes, forming one set, contain 700 specimens,
illustrating, in a complete and convenient manner, this branch of Indian Manufactures.
The twenty sets are to be distributed in Great Britain and India—thirteen in the
former and seven in the latter—so that there will be twenty places, each provided
with a collection exactly like all the others, and so arranged as to admit of the
interchange of references when desired.
Each sample has been prepared in such a way as to indicate the character of the
whole piece from which it was cut, and thus enable the manufacturer to reproduce
the article if he wishes to do so. In other words, the eighteen volumes contain
700 working samples or specimens.
The twenty sets of volumes may thus be regarded as Twenty Industrial
Museums, illustrating the Textile Manufactures of India, and promoting trade
operations between the East and West, in so far as these are concerned.
TEXTILE MANUFACTURES AND COSTUMES
*
OF THE
PEOPLE OE INDIA.
INTRODUCTION.
Specimens of all the important Textile Manufactures of India existing in the
stores of the India Museum have been collected in eighteen large volumes, of which
twenty sets have been prepared, each set being, as nearly as possible, an exact counter-
part of all the others. The eighteen volumes, forming one set, contain 700 specimens,
illustrating, in a complete and convenient manner, this branch of Indian Manufactures.
The twenty sets are to be distributed in Great Britain and India—thirteen in the
former and seven in the latter—so that there will be twenty places, each provided
with a collection exactly like all the others, and so arranged as to admit of the
interchange of references when desired.
Each sample has been prepared in such a way as to indicate the character of the
whole piece from which it was cut, and thus enable the manufacturer to reproduce
the article if he wishes to do so. In other words, the eighteen volumes contain
700 working samples or specimens.
The twenty sets of volumes may thus be regarded as Twenty Industrial
Museums, illustrating the Textile Manufactures of India, and promoting trade
operations between the East and West, in so far as these are concerned.