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<span>Fashionable Traditions</span>
<span> captures the complex reality of Asian, handmade textile production and consumption. Contributors to this collection reveal the entangled relationships between local artisans, external interventions, and consumers to offer a vivid account of the socio-economic, political, and cultural dynamics of Asian fashion.</span>

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<span>Preface</span>
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<span>Introduction: Asian Handmade Textiles as Fashionable Traditions</span>
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<span>Ayami Nakatani</span>
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<span>Part 1: Fashion Dynamics in Tradition</span>
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<span>Chapter 1</span>
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<span>Ikat Patterns in Flores, Indonesia, and the Global Fashion Trajectory</span>
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<span>Willemijn de Jong</span>
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<span>Chapter 2</span>
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<span>“New Style” of Ethnic Clothing: Dress between Tradition and Fashion among the Hmong in Yunnan, China</span>
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<span>Chie Miyawaki</span>
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<p><span>Chapter 3</span><br><br><span>The Pashmina Shawl: Continuity and Transformation from Ladakh to Kashmir</span><br><br><span>Monisha Ahmed</span><br><br><br><br><span>Part 2: Politics of Heritage and Beyond</span><br><br><span>Chapter 4</span><br><br><span>Listing Cultures: Politics of Boundaries and Heritagization of Handwoven Textiles in Indonesia</span><br><br><span>Ayami Nakatani</span><br><br><span>Chapter 5</span><br><br><span>Between Culture and Technology: “Theme” Saris and the Graphic Representation of Heritage in Tamil Nadu, India</span><br><br><span>Aarti Kawlra</span><br><br><span>Chapter 6</span><br><br><span>“Heritagization” as a Double-edged Sword: The Dilemma of Nishijin Silk Weaving in Kyoto, Japan</span><br><br><span>Okpyo Moon</span><br><br><span>Chapter 7</span><br><br><span>Inheriting Weaving Knowledge in Depopulated Communities: Conservation of Wisteria Fiber Textiles in Kyoto, Japan</span><br><br><span>Miwa Kanetani</span><br><br><br><br><span>Part 3: Contested Valorization and the Role of Mediators</span><br><br><span>Chapter 8</span><br><br><span>Branding Tsumugi Kimono in Japan: Kimono Magazines as Mediators between Consumers and the “Mingei” Movement</span><br><br><span>Seiko Sugimoto</span><br><br><span>Chapter 9</span><br><br><span>“Crafts” to “Art”: A Trajectory of Aboriginal Women’s Weavings in Arnhem Land, Australia</span><br><br><span>Sachiko Kubota</span><br><br><span>Chapter 10</span><br><br><span>Translocal Ikat in Contemporary Bali, Indonesia: Imagining Heritage, Imagining Modernities in Ikat Production and Marketing</span><br><br><span>Susan Rodgers</span><br><br><br><br><span>Part 4: Ambivalent Encounters with Global Consumers</span><br><br><span>Chapter 11</span><br><br><span>Embroidering Development: The Mutwa and Rann Utsav in Kutch, India</span><br><br><span>Michele A. Hardy</span><br><br><span>Chapter 12</span><br><br><span>Strategic Choices of Techniques: Dyed and Printed Textiles for Goddess Rituals in Gujarat, Western India</span><br><br><span>Yoko Ueba</span><br><br><span>Chapter 13 </span><br><br><span>Patchworking in Tradition: The Trends of Fashionable Carpets from Turkey</span><br><br><span>Ulara Tamura</span><br><br><span>Chapter 14</span><br><br><span>What Do Handwoven Textiles Do? Constellation of Things and the Primal History among Non-Weaving People in Flores, Eastern Indonesia</span><br><br><span>Eriko Aoki</span><br><br><span> </span><br><br><span>Index</span><br><br><span>About the Contributors</span></p>

<span>Ayami Nakatani </span>
<span>is professor of cultural anthropology and director of the Discovery Program for Global Learners at Okayama University.</span>