Skilled Immigrants in the Textile and Fashion Industries

Preface Part One: Introduction 1. A Brief History of Textile Production and Trade – Nazanin Hedayat Munroe, NYC College of Technology, City University of New York, USA Part Two: Imported Myths, Imported Moths: Silk Production Across Asia 2. Histories of Silken Skills: Immigrant Sericulturalists in Early Modern South Asia – Sylvia Houghteling, Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA 3. Prophets and Caterpillars: The Story of Job and the Social Mobility of Silk Workers and Weavers in the Early Modern Islamic World – Nader Sayadi, University of Rochester, New York, USA Part Three: Imported Skills: Weaving Specialists Go Global 4 Master Craftsmen in Migration: Safavid Silk Weavers in Mughal India – Nazanin Hedayat Munroe, NYC College of Technology, City University of New York, USA 5. Weaving Andean Textiles on Islamic Looms: The Importation of Skilled Weavers in the Colonial Andes – Maria Madison Smith, Syracuse University, New York, USA Part Four: Imported Labor: Enslaved and Immigrant Workers in America 6. Clothing the Black Body in Slavery: Stolen Lives and Imported Labor – Wanett Clyde, NYC College of Technology, City University of New York, USA 7. How the Other Half Works: Perceptions and Realities of Immigrant Labor in the New York Apparel Industry – Nazanin Hedayat Munroe, NYC College of Technology, City University of New York, USA Part Five: Imported Culture: Textile as Tradition in the Diaspora 8. Silk Weaving in the Cambodian Refugee Crisis and Diaspora: Displaced Practice and Identities in the Post-Khmer Rouge Era – Magali An Berthon, Center for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 9. The Evolution of an Identity: Tracing the Trajectory of Sindhi Ajrak across the India–Pakistan Border – Pragya Sharma, Indian Institute of Art and Design, New Delhi, India Conclusion Glossary of Textile Terms References Index