Silk

My thesis examines silk in terms of craft, heritage and use in contemporary Cambodia under the perspective of a history of trade, conflict, loss, and foreign influence. In Cambodia, silk weaving developed into a cottage activity since the twelfth century, producing ceremonial te…

This dissertation reads narrative published in the journals of 1870s and 1880s Beirut in the context of an emerging bourgeois readership, and argues that the significance of this archive to modern Arabic fiction has been neglected by critics Chapter One charts the emergence of a…

This study examines the history of figural silk textiles from Safavid Iran (1501-1722) as transmitters of social information and focuses on figural silks depicting narrative scenes from the twelfth century author Nizami's epic poem, "Layla and Majnun." Safavid silks are renowned…