| Weight | 0.25 kg |
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| ISBN | 0140179305 |
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| Publication Date | 1995 |
| Pages | 278 |
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| Author Description | Over the years Sheila Paine has made frequent journeys to India and Pakistan. In particular, she has researched and written a book on the chikan embroidery of India, and has spent several seasons of fieldwork in Pakistan, studying embroidery traditions for the University of Milan and the Worldwide Fund for Nature. She is the author of several books and many articles. |
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THE AFGHAN AMULET
TRAVELS FROM THE HINDU KUSH TO RAZGRAD
₨ 150
Sheila Paine, an embroidery expert, journeyed through Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Kurdistan, the Black Sea coast and Bulgaria in search of an ancient embroidery pattern. Travelling alone, in remote and sometimes dangerous country, she had many extraordinary adventures: she was smuggled out of Afghanistan by a group of Mujahadeen, and concealed under a burka, and travelled through Iran in purdah, looking at the embroideries of the Zorastrians and unexpectedly finding the pattern among a primitive tribe, where women wear red masks. Sheila Paine writes about her adventures and especially about the people.
ISBN: 0140179305
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA
Subtitle: TRAVELS FROM THE HINDU KUSH TO RAZGRAD
Author: SHEILA PAINE
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