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1826

Antique Kashmiri Shawl.Fargment

1700 - 1800 A.D

Size 13" x 10"
Size 33 x 25cm

Many of the shawls are woven in separate pieces and then carefully joined, this being so skillfully done that the seams are scarcely discernable. The time required for weaving a shawl varies, of course, with the pattern. and the fineness of the threads used: usually three or four weavers are engaged upon a single shawl from three months to two years. There are rarer patterns, of course, that embody infinitely more labor than this. The price of the more common shawls varies from 400 to 1600 rupies ($200 to $800).

The City of Cashmere, Chapter 15 of the book, "Remains of Lost Empires", circa 1875, by P.V.N. Myers, page 409 .

 

 

No: 1819

Size 9" x 5"
Size 23 x 13cm

Excerpt from Heritage of Kashmir

Many of the shawls are woven in separate pieces and then carefully joined, this being so skillfully done that the seams are scarcely discernable. The time required for weaving a shawl varies, of course, with the pattern. and the fineness of the threads used: usually three or four weavers are engaged upon a single shawl from three months to two years. There are rarer patterns, of course, that embody infinitely more labor than this. The price of the more common shawls varies from 400 to 1600 rupies ($200 to $800).

The City of Cashmere, Chapter 15 of the book, "Remains of Lost Empires", circa 1875, by P.V.N. Myers, page 409 .