Report on the All India Handweaving Exhibition
This is a report published in Calcutta in 1921 by Thacker, Spink & Co. on the All India Handweaving Exhibition held at Patna, India, prepared for those interested in Indian textile crafts. The four photographs show the exhibition grounds: a crowd entering beneath a decorated arch, rows of stalls and pavilions strung with flags, a long covered shed hung with bunting, and a posed group of men in suits and turbans before a thatched building. A designer might take from them the dense flag-and-bunting patterning of colonial-era fairs and the formal group portrait style.
