Treasures Stitched Together: Chintz Appliqué in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe

Sylvia Houghteling, assistant professor of the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, gave a presentation at an Indian textiles symposium held at Cornell on April 18-19, 2019. Introduction by Durba Ghosh, professor of history at Cornell University. In conjunction with the exhibition Traded Treasure: Indian Textiles for Global Markets, the symposium looked at India’s history of innovative textile traditions. It was cosponsored by Cornell’s South Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program, and Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies; and supported by the Stoikov Asian Art Lecture Fund at the Johnson, which was funded by a generous gift from Judith Stoikov ’63.