"Most people will buy and enjoy this book as a visual feast, for it illustrates over 120 textiles, some with excellent close-up details that are essential to the appreciation of their textures and stitches. The accompanying essays give new insights into such topics as the often overlooked contribution of Sindh's Hindu communities to its textiles and wider culture, and the importance of Sindhi ports and traders to pan-Asian trade routes - a subject which has been discussed far less than their Gujarati equivalents. Other essays provide overviews of the different communities (Jat, Rabari, Meghwar, Baluch and others) who made and used the embroideries, each with their own distinctive designs. Excellent close-up details of the different stitches clearly identify each of them, helping to make this book a very useful guide for collectors and curators of these beautiful textiles.".