border detail of a "Cachemire" shawl

border detail of a "Cachemire" shawl, 1861

Where object was made: France

Material/technique: chalk; graphite; wove paper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 66.5 x 33.5 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 26 3/16 x 13 3/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Barbara Benton Wescoe Fund

Accession number: 1994.0016

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Exhibition Label:
“Flowers, Dragons and Pine Trees: Asian Textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art,” Nov-2005, Mary Dusenbury
Throughout the nineteenth century there was a lively interplay between Kashmiri and European designers and weavers. This drawing by the French designer Antony Berrus adapted Kashmiri motifs to suit current European taste. The drawing might have been intended for a French agent in Kashmir who would have worked with a Kashmiri counterpart and an intricate series of middlemen, weavers, needleworkers and finishers to produce a shawl woven in the prized kani or twill-tapestry technique; alternately, it might have been adapted for production on a jacquard loom in France, producing the same pattern in a totally different weave structure.