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Rare - Script
1820's

What an unusual piece. I am hoping someone will tell me what this says! The pashmina is the softest. The side borders are very fine and the end slightly coarser. The script is either Kashmiri or Urdu. Love someone to read it for me.

Cataloguing

a shawl end of snuff coloured pashmina, the corners with slanting wool embroidered botehs predominately in red, but with some black and white highlights, the central section with five slightly curving boteh shapes emerging from a mound, each with a central cone filled with caligraphy in rich blue floss silk thread, with radiating flowerheads in blue, tan,apricot, ivory silks, the top border embroidered with a flower meander, the sides with a finely woven border, the end with a slightly coarser border above a red woven stripe, fringing, depth from top embroidered border 10 in or 27 cm; 46 in or 1.17 m.

Condition

As you will see from the photos the edges are very holey and ragged.