Sentence examples for indian textiles from inspiring English sources

Company profits from India came first from the familiar spices, but after 1660, Indian textiles outstripped these in importance.

Exactly when ethnic accessories seem to be in vogue, along comes a store selling richly patterned Indian textiles.

The world demand for fine Indian textiles was essentially satisfied by those from the "dark satanic" Manchester mills.

Words of Indian origin such as calico, chintz, and madras indicate the importance of Indian textiles in the history of Western interior design.

While Pilotto wanted to make references to the traditional antique circle mirrors of Indian textiles, he felt a more geometric shape was better suited to his label.

Together they suggest the breadth of Ms. Hashmi's formal influences: Indian textiles on the one hand; Western abstraction, from Mondrian to Eva Hesse, on the other.

In the last century Lister's former textile mill in Bradford was to house the V&A's Indian textile exhibits.

Gandhi had urged a boycott of Lancashire's cotton mills because their products were destroying the livelihoods of Indian textile workers.

The Indian textile industry was the most advanced in the world when the British arrived; within half a century it had been destroyed.

And despite tax cuts and a $64 million stimulus package announced in February, Indian textile makers are pushing for more government help.

In the early 20th century, strikes kept Indian textile mills from increasing the number of looms each worker operated, and the government protected the old ways through steep tariffs on foreign textiles.