1. Introduction: The Ocean's Many Cloth Pathways
I. Regions of Production
2. Textiles and Silver: The Indian Ocean in a Global Frame
3. Cloth and Commerce: Understanding Indian Economic History
4. Handkerchiefs, Scarves, Sarees and Cotton Printed Fabrics: Japanese Traders and Producers and the Challenges of Global Markets
5. Kanga Made in Japan: The Flow from the Eastern to the Western End of the Indian Ocean World
6. A Worn Insecurity: Textiles, Industrialization and Colonial Rule in Eritrea during the Long Twentieth Century
II. Trade, Exchange and Networks of Distribution
7. Distributive Networks, Sub-Regional Tastes, and Ethnicity: The Trade in Chinese Textiles in Southeast Asia from the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries CE
8. Textile Reorientations: The Manufacture and Trade of Cottons in Java c. 1600-1850
9."The Dearest Thing on the East African Coast": The Forgotten Nineteenth Century Trade in "Muscat Cloth"
10. Converging Trades and New Technologies: The Emergence of Kanga Textiles on the Swahili Coast in the Late Nineteenth Century
III. Cultures of Consumption
11. Warp and Weft: Producing, Trading and Consuming Indian Textiles across the Seas (First-Thirteenth Century CE)
12. The Decline of the Malagasy Textile Industry, c. 1800-1895
13. Contemporary Geographies of Zanzibari Fashion: Indian Ocean Trade Journeys in the Run-Up to Ramadhan Festivities
14. Coda: The Fabric of the Indian Ocean World
Reflections on the Life Cycle of Cloth.