Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings

Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings

Puliady, Syona
Vose, Steven M.
Dhanani, Lynna R.

Paperback

Indian & South Asian Art

Publisher Price: $40.00

ISBN10: 0998044571
ISBN13: 9780998044576
Publisher: Fowler Museum at UCLA
Published: Dec 16 2025
Pages: 186
Weight: 2.23
Height: 0.61 Width: 9.63 Depth: 10.48
Language: English

Textiles, embroidered with religious imagery, express lay piety in public and private shrines

This beautifully illustrated volume highlights Jain devotional textiles (choḍs) from the Ronald and Maxine Linde Collection at UCLA's Fowler Museum. Fashioned in the Indian states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, these works of velvet and sateen cloth, lavishly embroidered with gold and silver gilt thread, depict Jain mythology, influential spiritual teachers, sacred sites, and ritual traditions. Visualizing Devotion delves into the innovative material approaches taken by the creators of choḍs, the captivating religious stories they convey, and the social lives of these objects in Jain communities. They offer a mode of devotional patronage to lay people, who frequently commission them as gifts for places of worship in recognition of deceased relatives or upon completion of important rituals, such as monastic initiation or a lengthy fast.

Also in

Indian & South Asian Art

View All