Kashmiri Shawl from Leeds, UK

Kashmiri shawl with embroidered buteh motif, India, 19th century. Kashmiri shawl with embroidered buteh motif, India, 19th century. Courtesy ULITA, acc. no. 2013.8.

ULITA, an Archive of International textiles, University of Leeds, houses a Kashmiri shawl (267 x 120 cm) from the nineteenth century that was owned by Mrs Emily Herklots (née Bazeley; 1873-1934). She was the wife of the Reverend Herklots (1873-1934), who was vicar of St Georges, near Leeds General Infirmary, and whose family had lived and worked in India since the seventeenth century.

The woven Kashmiri shawl, made of cashmere, has a hand embroidered buteh motif in one corner with the initials R and P. The embroidery is worked in blue and pink silk thread.

ULITA online catalogue (retrieved 29 January 2017).

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