19th C. Kashmir Shawl, India. Wool, silk. "This shawl has an undecorated red center and two pairs of unevenly-sized wide panels for a field. The wider panels are composed of two equally large sections sewn together while the narrower panels are actually silk-warp border stripes. One set of these has been reversed so when folded in half into a triangle, it will appear face up. The white eight-pointed rosette and cypress tree are finely inlaid. All four sides have multicolored patchwork squares needle-embroidered with various colored wools." Literature: Parviz Nemati, Shawls of the East, From Kerman to Kashmir, New York, 2003. This shawl (plate 44) is illustrated on pages 276-277.

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