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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9427493, member: 2844&quot;]Given the specific Afghan flag, it was made between 1930 and 1974.</p><p>Afghanistan has had many different flags over the years. It now has a flag with the text of the Shahada, the Islamic creed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Paisley is the British nickname for the ancient Indian and Indo-Persian &#039;boteh&#039; design.</p><p>Afghanistan was part of the Indo-Persian empire, so it is a traditional design for them. Style-wise, this scarf is related to Kashmir scarves and shawls.</p><p><br /></p><p>Indian/Indo-Persian designs used to be copied in several countries in the West. The best known town in the UK where Kashmir shawls were copied is Paisley, in Scotland. Which is why the English-speaking world calls the &#039;boteh&#039; design paisley.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a lot of confusion about pashmina scarves.</p><p>Pashmina is the soft wool from the undercoat of changthangi goats, a sub-species of Kashmir goats from the Himalayan region of Kashmir, NW India.</p><p>A pashmina scarf is made in Kashmir from that specific wool. A pashmina scarf can be any size and can be decorated with any design, as long as it is made from the very expensive Kashmiri pashmina wool.</p><p>Kashmir also produces scarves and shawls from other Kashmir goats, which is also valued, but not as expensive as pashmina scarves.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few decades ago pashmina scarves became very popular, for those who could afford them. As usual, fakes were made, and the name was misused for any rectangular woolly scarf.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your scarf is beautiful, but it has nothing to do with the real pashmina, nor with the real Paisley scarf.</p><p>It is firmly rooted in the Indo-Persian tradition and decorated with &#039;boteh&#039; designs (which are called paisley in the English-speaking world).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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