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<p>[QUOTE="6rivets, post: 2605, member: 24"]Here I am!</p><p><br /></p><p>All three appear to either be Kashmiri or Kashmiri-style shawls. All appear to be hand-woven. </p><p><br /></p><p>They still weave and embroider these in exactly the same way, and people wear them just as they have for, well, forever. In Dehradun (~100 miles from the Tibet and Nepal borders, where a lot of Basmati rice is grown) I spent a couple hours just sitting in one of the shawl shops, where customers and salesmen alike sit as the latter display a bazillion shawls until the "right" one is found. I couldn't decide - too many - and ended up buying a couple vintage ones for a quarter apiece at the untouchables' secondhand market. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway...what's changed are the colors, dyes, and designs. Hard to tell whether #2 or #3 is the oldest. #2 is, of course, the border only. From the quality of the embroidery alone, it's got to be at least 50 years old, possible as much as twice that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, these designs started out as embroidery. And itinerant shawl-repairers collect the old ones and save the yarn for fixing family heirlooms.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Yeah, it's about time for me to make some plane reservations...)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="6rivets, post: 2605, member: 24"]Here I am! All three appear to either be Kashmiri or Kashmiri-style shawls. All appear to be hand-woven. They still weave and embroider these in exactly the same way, and people wear them just as they have for, well, forever. In Dehradun (~100 miles from the Tibet and Nepal borders, where a lot of Basmati rice is grown) I spent a couple hours just sitting in one of the shawl shops, where customers and salesmen alike sit as the latter display a bazillion shawls until the "right" one is found. I couldn't decide - too many - and ended up buying a couple vintage ones for a quarter apiece at the untouchables' secondhand market. Anyway...what's changed are the colors, dyes, and designs. Hard to tell whether #2 or #3 is the oldest. #2 is, of course, the border only. From the quality of the embroidery alone, it's got to be at least 50 years old, possible as much as twice that. Incidentally, these designs started out as embroidery. And itinerant shawl-repairers collect the old ones and save the yarn for fixing family heirlooms. (Yeah, it's about time for me to make some plane reservations...)[/QUOTE]
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