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Encyclopedia Britannica



SHAWL

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 814 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHAWL , a square or oblong article of dress worn in various ways dependent from the shoulders. The
term
 , is of Persian origin (sisal), and the article itself is most characteristic of the natives of N.W. India and Central
Asia
 ; but in various forms, and under different names, the same piece of clothing is found in most parts of the world. The shawls made in Kashmir occupy a pre-eminent place among textile products; and it is to them and to their imitations from Western looms that specific importance attaches. The Kashmir shawl is characterized. by the elaboration of its
design
 , in which the "
cone
 "
pattern
  is a prominent feature, and by the glowing harmony, brilliance, depth, and enduring qualities of its colours. The basis of these excellences is found in the very fine, soft, short, flossy under-wool, called pashm or pashmina, found on the shawl-goat, a variety of Capra hircus inhabiting the elevated regions of Tibet. There are several varieties of pashm, but the finest is a strict
monopoly
  of the maharaja of Kashmir. Inferior pashm and
Kirwan
  woola fine soft Persian sheep's woolare used for shawl weaving at
Amritsar
  and other places in the Punjab, where colonies of Kashmiri weavers are established. Of shawls, apart from shape and
pattern
 , there are only two
principal
  classes: (1) loom-
woven
  shawls called tiliwalla, tilikar or kani karsometimes
woven
  in one piece, but more often in small segments which are sewn together with such precision that the sewing is quite imperceptible; and (2) embroidered shawlsamlikarin which over a ground of plain pashmina is worked by needle a minute and elaborate pattern.


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