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Language: EnglishPages: 112 (Throughout Color Illustrations) Preface Textiles: Binding Threads between Cultures from National Museum Collection is significant publication in many ways. Although the museum does not have a dedicated textile department, there are seven departments, out of ten, who possess the textile collection. These departments have textiles collections of India mainly from North, East, South, West and North East preserved in Decorative Arts, Anthropology, Paintings, Manuscripts, Arms and Armour departments. Fairly representative artefacts are from the non-Indian collection, which belongs to Pre-Columbian and Western Arts and Central Asian Antiquities. Time to time different departments had organized the textile exhibition and also come up with the small publication of individual department. For the first time, a collaborative effort was taken and all department have come together for this special publication dedicated on textiles. For the first-time two-day symposium on "The Art of South Indian Embroidery and Preventive care of textiles" was organized in 2015. The focus of this symposium was the highlight the embroidery tradition of South India, which got less attention in comparison to other textile traditions of the Southern region. First five articles are from scholars, who had presented their research in the symposium. Dr Choodamani Nadagopal was the key speaker, who brought the various traditions of embroideries in the religious setting of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. Professor Dr Vandana Bhandari had looked the overall variations including the tribal, ethnic, rural and urban. One of the masterpieces of decorative arts department of the National Museum is the hand embroidered ten feet long temple hanging, which has been studied by the Dr Anamika Pathak. The stitches of this hanging