Ames, Frank — The Kasmir Shawl
Antique Collectors Club, 1986 Cloth, with dust jacket. 347 pages. Text in English. Clean copy with minimal signs of use. The Kashmir Shawl. The Kashmir Shawl and its Indo-French Influence. After many centuries, the Kashmir shawl still fires our imagination as an exotic souvenir of the Orient, representing a bygone and opulent era. The shawl's sudden migration in 1800 from Kashmir to Europe spawned important new developments in European design ideas. This book is written in English.