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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4511905, member: 2844"]I love them.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>They are called 'Manila shawls', and were used as actual shawls from the 18th century on. Despite the name they were made in Canton, coastal China, but many were traded through Manila, Philippines.</p><p>They were worn throughout the Western world as well as Asia, but were often regarded as 'Spanish' or 'Hispanic'.</p><p>They are still worn in Spain on special occasions, and by Flamenco and Sevillanas dancers. They are also worn by many Portuguese fadistas, lady fado singers. Portugal used to occupy Macau, an island off the Cantonese coast. Most of those "Spanish" and "Portuguese" shawls are still made in China.</p><p><br /></p><p>So a Chinese shawl that was named after the capital of the Philippines, at some stage became regarded as Hispanic-Iberian, and in some parts of the world ended up on pianos sometime in the 19th century.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The one in the last photo looks 19th century to me.</p><p>The other one I'm not sure, either 19th or 20th.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4511905, member: 2844"]I love them.:) They are called 'Manila shawls', and were used as actual shawls from the 18th century on. Despite the name they were made in Canton, coastal China, but many were traded through Manila, Philippines. They were worn throughout the Western world as well as Asia, but were often regarded as 'Spanish' or 'Hispanic'. They are still worn in Spain on special occasions, and by Flamenco and Sevillanas dancers. They are also worn by many Portuguese fadistas, lady fado singers. Portugal used to occupy Macau, an island off the Cantonese coast. Most of those "Spanish" and "Portuguese" shawls are still made in China. So a Chinese shawl that was named after the capital of the Philippines, at some stage became regarded as Hispanic-Iberian, and in some parts of the world ended up on pianos sometime in the 19th century.;) The one in the last photo looks 19th century to me. The other one I'm not sure, either 19th or 20th.[/QUOTE]
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