Shawl Border (Pallu)

Textiles

c. 1820

India, Kashmir

The earliest Kashmir shawls introduced to Europe were made of white cashmere wool with decorated ends containing rows of stylized floral buta motifs. The pattern became known as paisley in English, after the town in Scotland that was a center of shawl weaving. The fine wool of a shawl’s central area was always the most fragile component, and this long shawl has been mended with two nearly invisible seams across the central white field. Europeans valued Kashmir shawls so highly that even fragments of the decorative borders were preserved, collected, and treasured.

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Department: Textiles

Title: Shawl Border (Pallu)
Place: Kashmir (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1810–1830
Medium: Wool, double interlocking 2:2 'S' twill tapestry weave; main warp fringe
Dimensions: 39.4 × 126.3 cm (15 1/2 × 49 3/4 in.); Weft repeat: H.: 65 cm (25 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1937.1231b
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Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932) and Carrie Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, by 1932 [incoming receipt R6515, Jan. 24, 1938; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

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