* Introduction: It All Started With GeorgeAmrita Mukerji, independent scholarSection 1: The Textile Trade with Asia* Brocade for the Buddhists: The Textile Trade between Benares and TibetMonisha Ahmed, independent scholar* The Contemporary Use of Gyasar Brocade in Qinghai Province, China (Amdo, Tibet)Joss Graham, independent scholar* Bengali Textiles as Tribute Items to Ming ChinaRalph Kauz, Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna* The Unusual Textile Trade between India and Sri Lanka: Block-prints and Chintz 1550-1900Steven Cohen, independent scholar* The Asian Trade in Kashmir ShawlsJanet Rizvi, independent scholar* Indian Textiles for Island Taste: The Trade to Eastern IndonesiaRuth Barnes, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford* In Quest of Patterns: Notes on a Group of Indian Trade Textiles from the Treasury of the Raja of Los Palos in East TimorBrigitte Khan Majlis, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum of Ethnology, Cologne* Who Influenced Whom? The Indian Textile Trade to Sumatra and JavaMary Hunt Kahlenberg, independent scholarSection 2: The Textile Trade with Africa, America and Europe* Kalabari Identity and Indian Textiles in the Niger DeltaJoanne Eicher, University of Minnesota* Changing Twentieth-century Textile Design and Industry Structure in the India-West Africa Embroidery TradeHazel Lutz, independent scholar* An Indian Ocean Odyssey: Malagasy Raffia Ikat Textiles in GujaratJeffrey Hess, independent scholar* Bengal Goods for America in the Nineteenth CenturySusan Bean, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts* Seventeenth-century Perceptions of Textile Trade as Evidenced in the Writings of the Emperor Jahangir and Sir Thomas Roe Donald Clay Johnson, Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minnesota* The Earliest Survivors? The Indian Embroideries at Hardwick HallRosemary Crill, Victoria Albert Museum, LondonSection 3: Geographical Patterns of the Indian Textile Trade* The Geography of Textiles Jasleen Dhamija, independent scholar* High Roads and Low Roads: A Historical Overview of the Textile Trade of SindhNasreen Askari, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi* Surat as a Centre of the Textile TradeSujata Parsai, TAPI Collection, Surat Section 4: Specific Types of Indian Trade Textile* Muslins of BengalRuby Ghuznavi, Crafts Council of Bangladesh* Satgaon Quilts: A StudySatarupa Dutta Majumder, independent scholar* Mashru as a Trade TextileYashodhara Agrawal, Bharat Kala Bhavan, Varanasi* The Trade in Zardozi TextilesCharu Smita Gupta, National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and MuseologySection 5: The Trade in Dyes* India's Trade in Indigo: Its Ups and DownsJenny Balfour-Paul, University of Exeter* Shipwrecks, Dyestuffs and the India TradeRex Cowan, independent scholar