590 Semi Antique Abbasi Kohistan Wedding Shawl Textile with Superfine Embroidery

Kohistani Shawl with extremely fine embroidery

The embroidery threads wrap around the warps and wefts of the base fabric.

Tassels with beads on the end.

Four corner triangles to attach the layers together.

Rare

Backing made of black cloth and a green panel at the top.

Estimated to from 1960s

 207cm x 150cm

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This item has spent a lifetime being used for the purpose of its creation with the original artist/user. Signs of this life lived heartily may be present on the piece in the form of stains, thread loss, loose threads, holes, tears, color run and other imperfections. Therefore the condition must be assumed to be “not” perfect. More photos of such imperfections will be provided on request.

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