Examined Logan pictures in Nirona. Examined housing and implements in Ludia. Examined housing, quilt and mirror work embroidery in Dhordo. Visited City Craft Art Center in Munbai. Arrived in Tokyo.
Fabrics are important clues when studying history and that of interchange between regions.
They have played important roles as tributes, rewards and gifts from ancient years. They indicated hierarchical status and became the fundamental sign for distinguishing the sexes, classes, and races. They were also one of the goods typically traded long distance. Unit 5, Group a, b and c collaborated to trace the cultural history of fabrics. This being our first research survey, we decided to visit India, which had been the world center of fabric manufacture until the 18th Century.