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shawl
c. 1825
The deep phala patterned border at each end has seven buta shapes each with a symmetrical floral design with the phalia infilled around the buta shapes with stylised flowers. This is called the jhal. ...
shawl
c 1820
An oblong cream shawl with wide borders at the shorter ends, featuring a repeat butah design. There are also narrow floral and foliate borders around all 4 edges. The fabric is twill woven using fi...
shawl
early 19th Century
Twill woven Moon shawl composed of a central medalion and a quarter medallions at each corner. The whole field is twill/tapestry woven with small repeating geometric shapes in blue on a cream ground. ...
shawl
early 19th Century
Twill woven shawl with an all over design composed of a central medalion and quarter medallions in each corner. A decorative border surrounds the whole design. The central field of the shawl has a re...
shawl
c. 1815
A large oblong cream shawl, or shoulder mantle, with wide borders at the shorter ends which feature a repeat buta design. There are also narrow floral and foliate borders around all 4 edges. The ...
shawl
c. 1830
Long shawl with a large patterned border (phala) along each end comprising of eight buta shapes with a narrow patterned border (tanjir) on either side. The sides have a narrow patterned border (hashiy...
shawl
1870-1879
Large square shawl colourfully twill woven with an all over repeating swirling buta design and a similar stylised border surrounds the central design. The shawl design is formed from many loom woven m...
moon shawl (Chandar)
c. 1825
A medium sized shawl, pieced together from 2 sections of fabric. It has an overall repeat design of small botehs (usually found as a decorative element of a long shawl's dhor). The boteh patterns, w...
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...