How Long to Read The Art of Cloth in Mughal India

How Long Does it Take to Read The Art of Cloth in Mughal India?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read The Art of Cloth in Mughal India by Sylvia Houghteling

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"When a rich man in seventeenth-century South Asia enjoyed a peaceful night's sleep, he imagined himself enveloped in a velvet sleep. In the poetic imagination of the time, the fine dew of early evening was like a thin cotton cloth from Bengal, and woolen shawls of downy pashmina sent by the Mughal emperors to their trusted noblemen approximated the soft hand of the ruler on the vassal's shoulder. Textiles in seventeenth-century South Asia represented more than cloth to their makers and users. They simulated sensory experience, from natural, environmental conditions to intimate, personal touch. The Art of Cloth in Mughal India is the first art historical account of South Asian textiles from the early modern era. Author Sylvia Houghteling resurrects a truth that seventeenth-century world citizens knew, but which has been forgotten in the modern era: South Asian cloth ranked among the highest forms of art in the global hierarchy of luxury goods, and had a major impact on culture and communication. While studies abound in economic history about the global trade in Indian textiles that flourished from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, they rarely engage with the material itself and are less concerned with the artistic-and much less the literary and social-significance of the taste for cloth. This book is richly illustrated with images of textiles, garments, and paintings that are held in little-known collections and have rarely, if ever, been published. Rather than rely solely on records of European trading companies, Houghteling draws upon poetry in local languages and integrates archival research from unpublished royal Indian inventories to tell a new history of this material culture, one with a far more balanced view of its manufacture and use, as well as its purchase and trade"--

How long is The Art of Cloth in Mughal India?

The Art of Cloth in Mughal India by Sylvia Houghteling is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Art of Cloth in Mughal India Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read The Art of Cloth in Mughal India aloud.

What Reading Level is The Art of Cloth in Mughal India?

The Art of Cloth in Mughal India is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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