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Shawl
The warm and colourful shawls that the British East India Company brought back from Kashmir were in high demand in Great Britain. Not everyone, however, could afford such luxurious imported items. This soon led weavers in England and Scotland to imitate them successfully. The method used in Europe differed from that in Kashmir; the reverse side of a shawl often gives away whether it is an original…
Creator
- anonymous
- Keith Fullerton Whitman
Type of item
- Object Type: fashion objects
- fashion objects
Creator
- anonymous
- Keith Fullerton Whitman
Type of item
- Object Type: fashion objects
- fashion objects
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Creation date
- c.1815 - c.1825
Places
Identifier
- BK-1978-303
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/BK-1978-303
Extent
- geheel length 268 cm
- geheel width 126 cm
Language
- nl
- nld
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-04-12T19:41:10.124Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-04-20T10:25:53.817Z