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Asia10
Kashmir10
Varanasi1

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From 17002
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shawl
Textile

shawl

A white and gold silk shawl with large gold paisley or buteh pattern and gold tassels at either end. Gold on white buteh and tendril pattern on the main section.

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

after 1820

Almost square cut fragment from a Kashmiri shawl. Jacquard woven with a swirling design. The fragment is hand seamed down its centre and across the upper 1/4 of the fragment. A predominately white col...

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shawl sample
Textile

shawl sample

19th Century

Wool or cashmere shawl border sample piece with running leaves and flowers. Two wide borders divided by two narrow borders. Patterning in dark green, brown and white on a green ground.

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

19th Century

Sample of fine woven cloth with embroidered stylised floral design with two flower heads, and a narrow border along one side. The ground is green with the embroidery worked in greens, blue, red and wh...

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shawl fragment
Textile

shawl fragment

late 19th Century

Sample of fine woven cloth with embroidered stylised floral or tree-like designs with a narrow border along one side. The ground is beige with the embroidery worked in green, red, cream and white in s...

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moon shawl
Textile

moon shawl

mid 19th century

This shawl is square with a white ground and red and blue patterning. The pattern has a central medallion with quarter medallions at each corner of the shawl, which provide variation to the all over ...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

18th century

This shawl has a white ground decorated at each end with a border of large pine cone "buta" motifs, and a narrower border consisting of smaller pine cone patterning which runs along all four sides. A...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

c. 1830

Palla (large patterned border at each end of the shawl): a total of eight densely patterned right-hand facing botehs, separated into compartments by a series of vertical lines between symmetrically ar...

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sari
Textile

sari

early-mid 18th Century

Sari of fine twill woven crimson ground with an all over twill-tapestry woven design of stylised isolated floral motifs, woven to form a repeating design. One end of the sari has a deep border of seve...

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shawl
Textile

shawl

1830-1850

The phala (large patterned border at each end of the shawl) has a total of eight densely patterned right-hand facing botehs, separated into compartments by a series of vertical lines between symmetric...

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