Anyone interested in these kind of things, Steve Bull on his twitch stream (highly recommended) actually showcased a similar book with a large amount of these kind of prints around 1:18:23 into the video:
Some of these patterns remind me of Hawaiian shirt patterns. Is there an influence, in either direction or from some third point? Or are the patterns shaped by the same production technology? Or am i imagining it?
"According to some sources, the origin of aloha shirts can be traced to the 1920s[11] or the early 1930s,[12] when the Honolulu-based dry goods store "Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker" under the proprietorship of Kōichirō Miyamoto,[12] started making shirts out of colorful Japanese prints.[b][11][12]"
AFAIK Japanese graphic arts can be broadly traced to the Edo period and the proliferation of popular literacy that print created. Much at the core of Edo (1600-1870) can be traced to the western capital of the Tang Dynasty in China, Chang'an (618–907; now Xi'an), jewel of the culturally diverse Silk Road and one of the largest cities on earth at the time. And much of that variation can be traced to a dispersion of Indian linguistics and philosophy.
That's all vague and arguable: but what about the awesome Indonesian Batik shirts? Wikipedia apes supposition that, while attested to the 12th century in Java, it may have been introduced during the 6th or 7th century from India or Sri Lanka.
Seems like on balance India's former achievements are being lost to time. I just watched Around India with a Movie Camera[0] (A compilation of early Indian film clips ~1900-1920) last night and boy was it cleaner back then.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1190638210