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I am investigating, through the languages of drawing, some of the implications of South Asian textile geographies in the visual cultures and patternings of diasporic urban landscapes in Britain. Developing past AHRC funded research on the ‘patois of pattern’ found in a South Asian textile shop inTooting, South London (Scalway 2005), this practice led research explores the relations between colonial and postcolonial Indian textiles, their immediate contexts of display and storage, and their relation with the wider patterns and landscapes through which they move. Themes include: the visual patterns through which the experiences of diaspora space are shaped and the question of how to represent them: how the visual cultures of South Asian textiles are implicated in engagements between different modalities of spatial representation (or world views): the relations of ornament to diasporic articulations of modernity, meaning and memory: and how the investigation of pattern can provide diasporic topographic representations that transrupt orthodox geographies of place, landscape and identity.