Shawl
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A shawl is a simple item of clothing, loosely worn over the shoulders, upper body and arms, and sometimes also over the head. It is usually a rectangular piece of cloth, but can also be square or tria
A young girl wearing a shawl as a head covering
Maxida Märak wearing a traditional Saami wool shawl onstage at Riddu Riđđu 2019
Brooklyn Museum - Doña Josefa de la Cotera y Calvo de la Puerta - Mexican overall
Ethiopian model and filmmaker Amleset Muchie wearing a traditional shawl.
Kashmir shawl
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The Kashmir shawl, the predecessor of the contemporary cashmere shawl, is a type of shawl identified by its distinctive Kashmiri weave and for being made of fine shahtoosh or pashmina wool. Contempora
Shawl
…as fine as the Shatoosh. They could be in one colour only, woven in different colours (called tilikar), ornately woven or embroidered (called ameli). Kashmiri shawls were high-fashion garments in Western Europe in the early- to mid-19th century. Shawls in the Indian style were manufactured in the city of Norwich…
Empress Josephine
Pashmina goats in Ladakh
A 19th-century Kani shawl
The buta design on an 18th-century Kashmiri shawl