• ISBN13: 9789385285042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Fashion & Textile
• Publisher: Niyogi Books
• Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook
• Publication Date: January 1, 2016
• Pages: 284
• Original Price: INR 4000.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1815 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Textile & Costume

Rahul Jain is a textile designer and historian who lives and works in New Delhi. He runs a workshop of traditional Indian drawlooms in Varanasi, which weave silk samite, lampas, and velvet textiles modeled on historical Indian, Iranian, and Ottoman silks. He has written and published extensively on historical and contemporary Indian textiles. His publications include Rapture: The Art of Indian Textiles, a survey of India's finest historical textiles; studies of the woven silks of Sultanate and Mughal India; andHandcrafted Indian Textiles: Tradition and Beyond. A Jameel Prize 3 nominee, he received the Padma Shri from the Government of India in 2015.