Textiles of North Eastern India

Contents: Introduction. 1. Textiles of Assam : the unequal land. 2. Textiles from Nagaland. 3. Phee : the classical apparels from Manipur. 4. Dua and Puan : the prized textiles from Mizoram. 5. Textiles from Tripura. 6. Textiles from Meghalaya. 7. Textiles from the land of Rising Sun : Arunachal Pradesh. 8. Conclusion. Bibliography.

"North Eastern India is a unique land fondly called the land of seven sisters representing seven unique states known for creativity, artistic genre and culture. Textile in this land is unique in the sense that all types of textiles technology from primitive to modern co-exist equally creating wonderful spectra of designs. What is most exclusive being every woman barring a few are the expert weavers and caste barrier or tribe barrier never comes on the way. It is in this land that all four varieties of silk is produced besides vegetable fibres like cotton, rhamie, nettle and so on, in addition to a limited extent wool also. The book also unique in its own way which deals with textiles of seven States in seven separate chapters covering technology, designs, materials and so on. It is all the more unique since it comes from authors who made detailed study on this region." (jacket)