Silk and wool scarf with a natural mirror and around edges of butas in red, blue, yellow and green, anonymous, c. 1800 - c. 1825 Scarf, pashmina, silk and wool with a natural mirror and around edges of butas in red, blue, yellow and green. The edges are woven and sewn. Model: elongated with wide decorated edge on the short ends and narrow edges along the long sides. Plain center piece or mirror. Technology: The characteristic of the intersection of the ornament in the Kashmierjaal, that the threads were beaten around each other during the transition from one color to another and that the threa
Silk and wool scarf with a natural mirror and around edges of butas in red, blue, yellow and green, anonymous, c. 1800 - c. 1825 Scarf, pashmina, silk and wool with a natural mirror and around edges of butas in red, blue, yellow and green. The edges are woven and sewn. Model: elongated with wide decorated edge on the short ends and narrow edges along the long sides. Plain center piece or mirror. Technology: The characteristic of the intersection of the ornament in the Kashmierjaal, that the threads were beaten around each other during the transition from one color to another and that the threads are again in the next impact when changing the colors again around each other were beaten or double connected. With this 'double connect' small loops formed at the back of the fabric; These rows of loops are typical of the cashmere tissues. Colors: for carmine red the - imported from Hindustan - Cochenille, which was drawn from slice; For other shades red, a dye, which was extracted from tropical wood; For blue and green Indigo from India; For yellow and different shades orange crocuses from Kashmir itself. Decoration: The upright, large butas - a cone or pine cone shape - at the ends are made up of leaf and floral motifs around a cypress -like shape in the middle. They are clamped between narrow floral edges, which are somewhat frayed at the ends. The plain mirror is surrounded by a border - to the right - tilting butas, floating above a floral edge. India whole: Silk. whole: Wool Scarf, pashmina, silk and wool with a natural mirror and around edges of butas in red, blue, yellow and green. The edges are woven and sewn. Model: elongated with wide decorated edge on the short ends and narrow edges along the long sides. Plain center piece or mirror. Technology: The characteristic of the intersection of the ornament in the Kashmierjaal, that the threads were beaten around each other during the transition from one color to another and that the threads are again in the next impact
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