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shawl

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  • Other Name

    amli (embroidered shawl) (Indian)

    amilikar (Indian)

  • Description

    wool, embroidered 'amlikar or 'amli', mid-blue twill-woven ground finely embroidered in predominant colour red, deep border with reversed embroidery for folding shawl on the cross, pattern of elongated botehs, fringed all round, made in sections in imitation of the woven shawl (signature in one corner embroidered in cream)

  • Place
    Kashmir/India
  • Accession Number
    1986.165
  • Accession Date
    26 Jun 1986
  • Other Id

    T1182 (textile)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

T1182; shawl; back

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