Indigenous Textiles of the Chittagong Hill Tracts by Arshi Dewan Roy

A study of the traditional hand-woven textiles of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, based on the author’s master’s research at York University. The book looks at how textiles carry cultural identity, and at what their production reveals about the social, economic and political situation of the region.

What the book covers

• Textiles presented by ethno-linguistic group, since dress has long marked one community from another
• Weaving as women’s knowledge and the decline of traditional dress under acculturation
• Fieldwork in a weaving village and the “Raygula” exhibition of new designs made from indigenous fabric
• Photographs of looms, fabrics and dresses

Dedicated to the Jumma women who have preserved the tradition of weaving.