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<p>[QUOTE="6rivets, post: 3321, member: 24"]There are a couple problems with what you've said that makes me not quite confident of your assertion that this is machine-woven. </p><ul> <li>Kashmir shawls are typically not "wool," but cashmere, which is goat hair.</li> <li>"Bustles" weren't worn in the mid-1800s, and in fact the bustle triggered these shawls' decline in popularity.</li> <li>The originals weren't made in the "middle east," but in Kashmir, which is in central Asia, just north of India and east of Afghanistan - some 500 miles beyond the easternmost border of what's known as the Middle East.</li> <li>They weren't "hand woven in small pieces". The <i>borders</i> were pieced, of small pieces of handwoven fabric - in imitation of the originals, whose borders were pieced-dyed in squares on the loom.</li> </ul><p><a href="http://webapps.lsa.umich.edu/umma/exhibits/Koelz_Collection_2010/shawls.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://webapps.lsa.umich.edu/umma/exhibits/Koelz_Collection_2010/shawls.html" rel="nofollow">http://webapps.lsa.umich.edu/umma/exhibits/Koelz_Collection_2010/shawls.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.textileasart.com/exc_kash.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.textileasart.com/exc_kash.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.textileasart.com/exc_kash.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="6rivets, post: 3321, member: 24"]There are a couple problems with what you've said that makes me not quite confident of your assertion that this is machine-woven. [LIST] [*]Kashmir shawls are typically not "wool," but cashmere, which is goat hair. [*]"Bustles" weren't worn in the mid-1800s, and in fact the bustle triggered these shawls' decline in popularity. [*]The originals weren't made in the "middle east," but in Kashmir, which is in central Asia, just north of India and east of Afghanistan - some 500 miles beyond the easternmost border of what's known as the Middle East. [*]They weren't "hand woven in small pieces". The [I]borders[/I] were pieced, of small pieces of handwoven fabric - in imitation of the originals, whose borders were pieced-dyed in squares on the loom. [/LIST] [url]http://webapps.lsa.umich.edu/umma/exhibits/Koelz_Collection_2010/shawls.html[/url] [url]http://www.textileasart.com/exc_kash.htm[/url][/QUOTE]
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