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Kashmir Shawl - Ames, Fram, and Ames, Frank, and Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C
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This guide tells the story of the Kashmir shawl, how it migrated to Europe in the 1800s and how the key pattern of the boteh evolved. With its beginnings under the Mughal emperors in Kashmir, the industry continued under Afghan rule, with an explosion of new designs during the Sikh period, until it fell into decline under the rule of the Dogra Rajahs. The importance of the French connection in the 19th century is also stressed, along with the cross-fertilization of ideas engendered by the demands of European fashion, whose ...

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Kashmir Shawl 1997, ACC Distribution

ISBN-13: 9781851492664

2nd Revised edition

Hardcover