Shalin Shawls

For most people, the word Kashmir is synonymous with the woven and embrodered shawls that have through the centuries, become a byword for elegance and luxury all over the world. But every craft, even one as sophisticated as the Kashmir Shawl, has its roots in day to day life; and though the evolution of design in shawls has been studied exhaustively, scholars have devoted little attention to the local village traditions of textile manufacture which provided the basic reservoir of skills to enable the shawl industry to develop as it did.

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The tourist’s eye view of an idyllic land of rice fields, almond blossomes and perpetual sunshine notwithstanding, winter does eventually come to the happy valley and warm clothing is, therefore, one of the necessities of life. Before the development of modern communications, far-flung village communities had ot be self-sufficient in such necessities; thus every village in the valley and its surrounding mountains or Ladakh had its two or three weavers and practically every family its own flock of sheep. Throughout the region, the rural people clohted themselves in pattu, a rough tweed-like material produced in a variety of wieghts and widths, and in winter they wrapped themselves in blankets, chadars, of a number of different designs, each characteristics of the area where it was made.
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