How Karun Thakar, a passionate collector of textiles, acquired his assortment of kimono is a story in itself. Exposed to fabric techniques in his mother's couture shop in Delhi, Thakar's growing curiosity repeatedly took him to Istanbul and Peshawar as he amassed of a seminal collection of Gujarati silk patola saris.

Kimono Meisen: The Karun Thakar Collection, by Anna Jackson and Karun Thakar
208 pages
Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, Nonfiction.