The book unveils the wondrous world of pichhwais - the devotional textiles that hang behind the image of Krishna as Shrinathji. Presented here are masterpieces from Praful and Shilpa Shah's TAPI (Textiles & Art of the People of India) collection of Surat, regarded as one of the most significant repositories of India's textile art.

An evocative Introduction by Porf. B.N. Goswamy leads on to article on the two main centres of pichhwai-making by texile scholars Dr. Kalyan Krishna and Kay Talwar. The entrise cataloguing the collection and describing each pichhwal, the result of painstaking effort by the TAPI research team, constitute a mine of information. A unique feature of the book is a selection of stortes translated from of the book is a selection of stories translated from early vernacular accounts of the sect by Prof. Karuna Goswamy.

It is an invaluable resource for designers, art historians and anyone interested in the decorative arts of Indian textiles in the context of the spiritual lives of thousands of people in this part of the world.