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Textile: ITC 2008.16 Contains digital media

shawl

c. 1830

Palla (large patterned border at each end of the shawl): a total of eight densely patterned right-hand facing botehs, separated into compartments by a series of vertical lines between symmetrically ar...

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Textile: ITC 2008.17 Contains digital media

moon shawl (Chandar)

c. 1830

Complete shawl in interlocking twill tapestry. Dense floral patterned quarter (corner) medallions and central medallion. Hashia (outside border) of running ornament. One set of borders which have b...

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Textile: ITC 2011.199 Contains digital media

shawl border pattern

19th-early 20th Century

Kashmir shawl border pattern sample with polychrome embroidered decoration on a cream ground the embroidery depicts stylised flower sprays and a running border of leaves along the bottom.

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Textile: ITC 2011.200 Contains digital media

whitework shawl border embroidery

19th-early 20th Century

Kashmir shawl border pattern sample with whitework type embroidered decoration on a cream ground depicting foliar sprays in cream with pulled work bordered in light brown. There is a narrow running ...

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Textile: ITC 2008.3 Contains digital media

shawl

c 1820

An oblong cream shawl with wide borders at the shorter ends, featuring a repeat butah design. There are also narrow floral and foliate borders around all 4 edges. The fabric is twill woven using fi...

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Textile: ITC 2009.97 Contains digital media

shawl

19th century

Thought to be a Norwich shawl composed of silk warp and very fine wool weft with an all-over printed design and twill woven cream silk stripes which form square and rectangular blocks all over the sha...

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Textile: ITC 2009.99 Contains digital media

shawl

c. 1830

Long shawl with a large patterned border (phala) along each end comprising of eight buta shapes with a narrow patterned border (tanjir) on either side. The sides have a narrow patterned border (hashiy...

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Textile: ITC 2009.92 Contains digital media

shawl

1860-1880

Twill woven shawl with an overall design composed of long swirling elongated buta shapes and a plain black woven square centre with the woven design extending into this square. The shawls design can b...

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Textile: ITC 2009.91 Contains digital media

shawl

1870-1879

Large square shawl colourfully twill woven with an all over repeating swirling buta design and a similar stylised border surrounds the central design. The shawl design is formed from many loom woven m...

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Textile: ITC 2009.87 Contains digital media

shawl fragment

after 1820

Almost square cut fragment from a Kashmiri shawl. Jacquard woven with a swirling design. The fragment is hand seamed down its centre and across the upper 1/4 of the fragment. A predominately white col...

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Textile: ITC 2010.730 Contains digital media

shawl

early 19th Century

This shawl is twill tapestry woven. It is of a design known as a chand-dar or 'moon shawl' which has a central circular design (moon) and a quarter circle in each corner. Inside the circles and quad...

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Textile: ITC 2010.657 Contains digital media

Cravat [pattern portfolio]

Seidea S.A.

1991

A black portfolio box containing 55 looseleaf sheets. On each sheet are four colour photographs of traditional Kashmir shawl designs.

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