One of the finest private collections
of Indian historic textiles and art
EXHIBITION
Masterworks of Trade Textiles 1250-1950 in the TAPI Collection
8th December 2024- 9th March 2025
Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum, Ahmedabad
Our Latest Publication
WHEN INDIAN FLOWERS BLOOMED IN EUROPE: Masterworks of Indian Trade Textiles, 1600-1780, in the TAPI Collection
By: Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis (Author)
This book travels back to a time in the 17 th and 18 th centuries when European merchant companies discovered that a gold mine lay in profitably sourcing
Indian textiles and selling them to their home markets.
Presented here are outstanding examples from the TAPI Collection: exquisite hand-drawn, dyed chintzes and garment pieces from India’s southeastern Coromandel Coast and intricately wrought embroideries from Bengal, Gujarat and the Deccan, commisioned for European patrons. As each of the textiles in the catalogue was destined for export, their presence in an Indian collection will be of interest to both Indian and international textile enthusiasts.
Eminent art historian Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis highlights her informative text with stunning examples from Dutch collections rarely seen before in English- language publications. Her authoritative explanations offer fresh insights into thirty masterpieces from the TAPI Collection.
By Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis (Author)
Published by Niyogi Books, New Delhi ; Text and images TAPI Collection, or individually credited, Surat; 2022
ISBN: 978-93-91125-17-2
Size – 28.5 cm (H) x 22 cm (W);
Hardcover with Jacket; 148 pages
Our Latest Publication
THE SHOEMAKER’S STITCH: Mochi Embroideries of Gujarat in the TAPI Collection
By Shilpa Shah, Rosemary Crill (Authors)
By Shilpa Shah, Rosemary Crill (Authors)
Published by Niyogi Books, New Delhi ; Text and images TAPI Collection, or individually credited, Surat; 2022
ISBN: 978-93-91125-45-5
Size – 32.5 cm (H) x 25.4 cm (W);
Hardcover with Jacket; 220 pages
This book is the first to delve deeply into the history of chain stitch embroidery in India and the connections to the Mochi or shoemaker community. This catalogue of images displays a wide range of exquisitely embroidered pieces ranging from Jain manuscript covers to portraits, items of clothing, fans, and furnishings. The accompanying essays provide the background history of the Mochis and their work and also shed fresh light on chain-stitch embroideries in museums and private collections previously thought to be from the Mughal period.
Get a glimpse of the different genres of TAPI’s textile and art collection and discover the essence of India.
The TAPI Collection consists of over four thousand textiles of historic value, encompassing a wide range of techniques, materials and motifs.
By Rosemary Crill, Steven Cohen, Ruth Barnes (Authors)
Published by Garden Silk Mills Limited. Mumbai in association with the TAPI Collection, Surat, 2002.
ISBN: 81-7508-354-9
Size – 33.02 cm (H) x 25.7 cm (W);
Hardcover with Jacket; 386 pages
By Deepika Shah (Author)
Published by Garden Silk Mills Limited, Mumbai in association with the TAPI Collection, Surat, 2005.
This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘MASTERS OF THE CLOTH: Indian Textiles Traded to Distant Shores, TAPI collection” at the National Museum, New Delhi, November 10, 2005 to December 18, 2005.
Size – 27.8 cm (H) x 21 cm (W);
Paperback; 56 pages
by Kalyan Krishna, Kay Talwar (Authors)
Published by Garden Silk Mills Limited, Mumbai in association with the TAPI Collection, Surat, 2007.
ISBN: 978-81-905935-0-2
Size – 33 cm (H) x 26.8 cm (W);
Hardcover with Jacket; 200 pages
“What India’s textile artisan was, and still is, able to achieve is awesome and humbling.”
Shilpa Shah – Collector