Manufacture of Kashmir Shawls
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A short extract from G. T. Vigne's Travels in Kashmir, reprinted in the Penny Magazine, describing how Kashmir shawls are made and finished. It covers thread preparation and rice-water stiffening, the terms for shawl cloth and other Kashmiri products, the taxation of shawls, and the washing, bleaching and sulphur-fume colouring of finished shawls. It also describes the shawl brokers (mokym) and their dealings with merchants, and the origin of the cypress-shaped shawl motif.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- August 1842
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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