Don’t Miss India: An Exhibition of Photographs of Textiles from the Subcontinent
San Francisco Bay Area antique rug and textile dealer Thomas Cole, who is also an accomplished photographer, has travelled to India several times in recent years, camera in hand. Selections from his photographs have been published on his website, via social media, and in a series of gallery exhibits in Marin County. His third and latest photographic show, ‘Don’t Miss India’, a blend of antique textile art from the subcontinent with, in his words, ‘timeless’ images of India, opens on Sunday June 23. For further details see below.
Photo circa 1890 (from The Castes of the Marwar, 1891), woman wearing wood block print cotton garment
Detail – Wood block print cotton textile, circa 1900 – 20, from Sanganer, Rajasthan (nr. Jaipur)
Detail – “Kantha” Quilted cotton textile, West Bengal, circa 1900
Detail – Wood block print cotton textile, circa 1800, from Balotra, Rajasthan
Detail – “Kalamkari” cotton textile fragment, late 17th/early 18th century, from Andhra Pradesh
Detail – Roller print cotton textile fragment, West India (Bombay?), late 19th century
Detail – Wood block print cotton jacket (complete), from Sanganer, Rajasthan, circa 1900
Detail – Wool textile fragment, Kashmir, circa 1850
Detail – Wood block print cotton textile, circa 1800 (or before), Delhi
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