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Rapture: The art of Indian textiles

Like figures on a certain Grecian urn, they dwell in the eternal moment. An archer draws his bow, a courtier nurses a goblet, women chatter, and blossoms, long gone, never fade. empires rise and fall and that is woven, people arrive from foreign lands and that is painted on fabric, seasons change in familiar floral patterns. Court scenes from the Deccan adorn a mid-17th century wall hanging (left). Archers and swordsmen appear on samite-weave silk from East India dating back to the 15th or 16th century (top middle). 

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