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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 2627, member: 44"]What a find! Lovely pieces! 6rivets got here with the answer. If she hadn't, I was going to tell you what I know about one I have, a paisley nearly identical to the 3rd one. In 2009 I posted a query on the Needle Arts... Textile board getting the same or at least a similar answer as from 6rivets. Who knows it may have been 6rivets that replied to me!</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, well, I have the reply at hand saved in the inventory of the shawl soooo will just pass it on to you. Nothing new that rivet doesn't know. BTW, mine is 68" x 68" with 4 big round stains and tears - not nearly in as good as shape as yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>"... Shawl is of the type have never been woven in the Middle East. They originated in the Kashmir, which is at the very northern end of India just south of China.</p><p><br /></p><p>"The design and dimensions suggest to me this is 1860s or so and machine-woven but it's hard to tell without more and crisper closeups. [The replier gave a link to an auction of a machine-woven and and an auction of a handwoven one.]</p><p><br /></p><p>"Especially given the condition problems, this one is likely to sell on the low end of the scale, which begins around $90 or thereabouts."</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan</p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~filearchives/textile/TextileVictorianPaisleyShawlTop.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 2627, member: 44"]What a find! Lovely pieces! 6rivets got here with the answer. If she hadn't, I was going to tell you what I know about one I have, a paisley nearly identical to the 3rd one. In 2009 I posted a query on the Needle Arts... Textile board getting the same or at least a similar answer as from 6rivets. Who knows it may have been 6rivets that replied to me! Oh, well, I have the reply at hand saved in the inventory of the shawl soooo will just pass it on to you. Nothing new that rivet doesn't know. BTW, mine is 68" x 68" with 4 big round stains and tears - not nearly in as good as shape as yours. "... Shawl is of the type have never been woven in the Middle East. They originated in the Kashmir, which is at the very northern end of India just south of China. "The design and dimensions suggest to me this is 1860s or so and machine-woven but it's hard to tell without more and crisper closeups. [The replier gave a link to an auction of a machine-woven and and an auction of a handwoven one.] "Especially given the condition problems, this one is likely to sell on the low end of the scale, which begins around $90 or thereabouts." --- Susan [IMG]http://home.earthlink.net/~filearchives/textile/TextileVictorianPaisleyShawlTop.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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