Apr 23, 2010
The VOC Dutch trading company was quick to recognize the importance of Indian textiles in Indonesia and forcibly captured much of the cotton cloth trade, prohibiting private dealing and displacing Indian agents who were based in Indonesia.
Apr 22, 2010
Some of the earliest examples of Indian trade textiles, have been dated to the ninth and tenth centuries, though there is evidence that points to a thriving trade in Indian textiles to other far-flung regions as early as the first century AD.