Fashioning Diaspora Space was a research project investigating the presence of South Asian clothing textiles in British culture and British Asian style.
Fashioning Diaspora Space: Research project
The Fashioning Diaspora Space project investigated the presence of South Asian clothing textiles in British culture in both colonial and post-colonial times. An introductio…
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Fashioning Diaspora Space: Moving Patterns
Moving Patterns was an artists' installation at the Royal Geographical Society shown from 7–21 May 2009. The work bore witness to the way in which pattern and ornament are …
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Fashioning Diaspora Space: British Asian style
British fashion has long been enriched by the presence of South Asian textiles, but in the last 50 years the clothing of South Asian people who have settled in Britain has …
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Indian textiles & Empire: Caspar Purdon Clarke
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke (1846-1911) was an architect, archaeologist and museum director. In 1882 he was sent to India with a budget of £5000 to buy objects for the museum'…
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Indian textiles & Empire: John Forbes Watson
John Forbes Watson's (1827-1892) idea for 'portable industrial museums', led to the publication of The Collections of the Textile Manufactures of India in 1866, eighteen vo…
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Indian textiles & Empire: Owen Jones
The 1852 Great Exhibition, held in London's Hyde Park, was the first of a series of international exhibitions to be held in major world cities. It provided the British publ…
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Collecting South Asian textiles at the V&A
The V&A's Indian collections have their origins in the East India Company's Museum, or Oriental Repository, founded in 1791at the Company's headquarters in Leadenhall Stree…
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Consuming South Asian textiles
Indian textiles were valued for a variety of reasons in 19th-century Britain. They were prized as symbolic trophies of Britain's empire in India and examples of its materia…
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Circulating South Asian textiles
While recent histories have emphasised the role of imperial authority in shaping the V&A's South Asian collections, the Museum's original objective was the general improvem…
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Owen Jones and the V&A Collections
The sparsity of serious historical attention given to Jones is surprising, considering his role in the history of the decorative arts, design education, and the development…
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British Asian Style: Fashion and Textiles
South Asian textiles have shaped British fashion and dress for centuries, from the fashionable chintzes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, t…
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