£ 130.00
222 x 121 cm // 7ft 3" x 4ft
Such animated and joyful shawls are embroidered in silk floss onto a hand-spun and woven soft cotton ground. Credited as being from the previously mixed race population of Western Punjab, now in present day Pakistan . Supposedly the product of Hindu artisans for their feudal Muslim patrons and evidenced by their disappearance in these forms in the post partition of Pakistan and India.
As found (AF) - this lovely example has suffered abrasion resulting in the loss of un-spun silk embroidery but it nevertheless remains fully intact and therefore useable
• first half 20th C (prior to 1947)
Ref. 17424
