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no.163 A Note on Understanding Sikh Shawls
A Note on Understanding Sikh Shawls Recently a knowledgeable client of mine requested some not-so-often-asked-for details of an interesting Sikh period long shawl I have ( see no. 163 under Kashmiri Shawls). To find the answers, which I must admit baffled me at the time, required some serious hands and…
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Kashmir shawl fragment, Mughal period, circa 1700. 22cm x 152cm. This Mughal fragment with its undecorated ground and feely spaced botehs represents an important link between the inchoate curvilinear botehs typical of the later part of the 18th century and the 17th century patterns. It’s uniqueness lies in the…