BOWERS MUSEUM presents “Global Threads: India’s Textile Revolution,” through April 5, 2026. Made with novel cotton, vivid colors and exuberant design, the decorated cottons of India changed human history. This exhibit considers India’s textile innovations and their influences on fashion, trade and industry around the world in places as far as Cairo, Japan, Sumatra, London, and Ottawa, and is produced and circulated by the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Shown: Woman’s jacket (wentke) with flowers and phoenixes of cotton, painted mordants and resist; textile made in coastal southeast India, constructed and trimmed in the Netherlands, c.1700s; Mother-goddess hanging (mata ni pachedi) by Chitara Chandrakant of cotton; hand-drawn, mordant-dyed, painted details, Ahmedabad, 2018. All images courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum © ROM

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