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Pashmina: The Kashmir Shawl and Beyond, 2nd Revised Edition

Rizvi, Janet & Ahmed, Monisha

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	Book ID : 34078
	ISBN-10 : 81-85026-90-4 / 8185026904
	ISBN-13 : 978-81-85026-90-9 / 9788185026909
	Place of Publication : Mumbai
	Year of Publication : 2017
	Edition : (Second Revised Edition)
	Language : English
	324p., 220 Illus., Maps, App., Gloss., Bib., Index, 31 cm.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS:-

Part 1 : THE FIBRE
1. Pashm and Other Animal Fibres.
2. Changra and Changpa: The Goats and Their Herders.
3. From Changthang to Srinagar: The Pashm Trade.

Part 2 : THE TEXTILE
4. Spinners, Weavers, and Needleworkers.
5. Design and Designers.

Part 3 : THE HISTORY
6. Early History: Conjecture and Speculation.
7. The Mughal Period.
8. The Iran Connection: the Termeh.
9. The Business in the 19th Century.

Part 4 : BY LAND AND SEA
10. The Kashmir Shawl in India.
11. The Kashmir Shawl in Iran, West Asia, and Russia.
12. Shawls in the West.

Part 5 : CASHMERE AND KASHMIR
13. Beyond the Shawl: Pashmina Becomes Cashmere.
14. Meanwhile, Back in the Valley ...

DESCRIPTION

The classic Kashmir shawl is among the most exquisite textile woven, the product of consummate skill and artistry applied to one of the world's most delicate fibres. It has been an object of desire for Mughal emperors and Sikh maharajas, Iranian nobles, French empresses, Russian and British aristocrats and, eventually, for the increasingly prosperous bourgeoisie created on both sides of the Atlantic by the Industrial Revolution. It has left a permanent imprint on the aesthetic sensibility of the modern world in the so-called paisley, derived from a motif developed in the ateliers of Kashmir's shawl designers. This authoritatively study introduces the Kashmir shawl as cultural artefact with known history spanning four centuries, and a geographical reference from Tibet to the United States. The authors' original research lays many persistent myths to rest. Lavishly illustrated and accessibly written, this book has much to offer textile scholars, and those interested in the history of Kashmir, or of India's material culture or its pre-modern trade. It will also delight anyone who has ever owned or admired a shawl from Kashmir.

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