A prayer arch, the red ground mehrab woven with floral mosaic boteh, with a dark ground border worked with flowers, Kashmir tapestry weave, early 19th century, mounted on board--29in x 42in

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A prayer arch, the red ground mehrab woven with floral mosaic boteh, with a dark ground border worked with flowers, Kashmir tapestry weave, early 19th century, mounted on board--29in x 42in

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W Moorcroft notes in his account of Shawl-Goods produced in Kashmir in 1823 (cited in The Kashmir Shawl, 1973, by John Irwin) that shawl weavers were producing door and window curtains for export to Persia, Turkey and also Russia.

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