Dressing Flesh and Stone Bibliography

Ambasta, Sumita, and Indu Viswanathan. n.d. “Ikat Weaving in India: A Case Study of Three Indigenous Traditions.” In Indigenous Technology Knowledge Systems, 137–50. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1396-1_9.

Biluka, Nirmala. “The Sacred Stories of the ‘Ganga Patams’” International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research

Dallapiccola, Anna L., Rosemary Crill, and Victoria Albert Museum issuing body. Kalamkari Temple Hangings. Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad, India : London : Ocean Township, NJ: Mapin Publishing ; in association with V&A Publishing ; simultaneously published by Grantha Corporation, 2015.

Dallapiccola, Anna L., Brigitte Khan Majlis, George Michell, John M. Fritz, Mohua Mitra, and Surendra Kumar. Lepakshi : Architecture, Sculpture, Painting. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2019.

Desai, Chelna. Ikat Textiles of India. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988.

Dhaky, M.A. Encyclopedia of Temple Architecture: South India: Upper Dravidadesa Later Phase, A.D. 973-1326. New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1996.

Duguta, Sushma, Sirisha Deepthi Sornapudi, and Padma Alapati. “A Survey on Traditional Designs and Colors of Telia Rumal.” Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology 32, no. 1 (2019): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.9734/CJAST/2019/45403.

Fee, Sarah. Cloth That Changed the World : the Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 2019.

Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter. When the World Becomes Female : Guises of a South Indian Goddess. 1st ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.

Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter. ““Who am I . . . what significance do I have?” Shifting Rituals, Receding Narratives, and Potential Change of the Goddess’ Identity in Gangamma Traditions of South India.” Oral Tradition, 29/2 (2015): 171-186.

Jain, Rahul. Rapture : the Art of Indian Textiles. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2011.

Majlis, Brigitte Khan. “Stripes, Checks, and Flowers: Textile Patterns in the Murals of Lepakshi, South India” Textile Museum Journal; Austin Vol. 46,  (2019): 26-41.

Muni, Markandeya. Shri Vishnudharmottara Purana. Translated by Priyabala Shah. Ahmedabad: New Order Book Co.


Nagarajan, Vijaya. Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India- An Exploration of the Kolam. 1st ed. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Paola von Wyss-Giacosa. “Myth and Cloth from India: The Kalamkari Collection in the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich.” Narrative Culture 5, no. 1 (2018): 34–69. https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.5.1.0034.

Ramaswamy, Vijaya. Textiles and Weavers in South India. 2nd ed. Delhi ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Ramani, Shakuntala. Kalamkari and Traditional Design Heritage of India. New Delhi: Wisdom Tree, 2007.

Sarin, Anika. “The Kolam Drawing: A Point Lattice System.” Design Issues 38 (3): 34–54, 2022.

Sathish, Swapna. “Painted Walls, Painted Textiles: Tradition and Continuity.” Indian History and Culture, 12 (September 2005): 179-182.

Schaflechner, Jürgen, Christoph Bergmann, and John Eade. Ritual Journeys in South Asia : Constellations and Contestations of Mobility and Space. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Sitapati, P., and M. A. Nayeem. Temples of Andhra Pradesh : History, Art and Architecture. Hyderabad: State Archives, 1981.


Sethi, Ritu. “Ganga Duppatlu /Kalamkari Temple-textiles Painted Pictorial Narratives on Cloth” Jnana Pravaha Research Journal No. XXVII (2024): 55-63.

Varadarajan, Lotika. “Designs in Cotton: Horizons of the Past and Present.” India International Centre Quarterly 11, no. 4 (1984): 69–78.

Varadarajan, Lotika. South Indian Traditions of Kalamkari. Ahmedabad ; Bombay: National Institute of Design ; Perennial Press, 1982.

Watt, George. Indian Art at Delhi, 1903. Being the Official Catalogue of the Delhi Exhibition, 1902-1903. London: J. Murray, 1904.