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Antique Kashmiri Shawl.This is one of the great masterpieces of the early 19th century
Circa 1800
Size 120" x 58"
Size 305 x 147cm
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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 .
