Textiles in Ancient Jain Kalpasutras
The wide variety of textiles depicted in a single Kalpasutra set – religious Jain manuscripts – awes me.
The subject of the paintings are the royalty and therefore it is expected that they would be surrounded by royal textiles – costumes, cushions, ceiling fans etc.
A small showcase of the beauty of textiles in a Jain Kalpasutra.
The dots appear to depict the fine mulmul bodycloth worn by monks.
If only we could tell from the 2-dimensional pictures whether the designs are prints or weaves or embroidery or embellishments!
jaina mishra
Sept 2014
By Jaina Mishra
By wovensouls
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Thank you for these. Would you consider allowing readers to ‘like’ your posts? In many cases I’d like to show my appreciation, but have no comment as such.
Hello,
From what I can see, it is possible to ‘like’ the post.
But I think wordpress requires a login before you can do that. A bit frustrating …
Thanks for writing in!