Textile Orientalisms: Paisley Shawls in Literature
Join the National Trust for Scotland on Friday 6th September at the Georgian House to welcome the author, Suchitra Choudhury, for a presentation of her work and wider discussion!
About Textile Orientalisms: Paisley Shawls in Literature
Join the National Trust for Scotland and Suchitra Choudhury for an evening of discussion around her new book, Textile Orientalisms in a restored Edinburgh New Town house.
During the late eighteenth century, Cashmere shawls from the Indian subcontinent began arriving in Britain. At first, these luxury goods were tokens of wealth and prestige. Subsequently, affordable copies known as “Paisley” shawls were mass-produced in British factories, most notably in the Scottish town of the same name. Textile Orientalisms is the first full length study of these shawls in British literature of the extended nineteenth century.
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About the author:
Suchitra Choudhury is a Research Affiliate at the University of Glasgow, specializing in English Literature associated with India. Suchitra’s new book Textile Orientalisms considers popular literary images of Cashmere and Paisley shawls as markers of fashion, class, and race during the nineteenth century.”
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