For a long time the Kashmir shawl has been characterized by the boteh, the principal motif with which the shawl is associated. Here, the craftsman has reduced it to a secondary status on the field, minute in size, yet there. Maybe, the ubiquitous motif is difficult to shrug off completely. A meandering movement or better described as a wavy flow in grey and coffee brown appears to challenge the chocolate brown base with sprigs of leaves and cones. This pattern is done largely in ochre. The space between the grey meander and the coffee brown is a honeycomb design, also in ochre. The field pattern is novel, innovative and rather lively.
There is no vertical border; the horizontal narrow border consists of meandering racemes with a small boteh in each concave. Beyond that is a plain black attachment woven to the rest of the shawl. Not only is the pattern defiant of the traditional ones, the colours are more subdued and sophisticated than the flaming reds and the flamboyant greens. This shawl is a pleasant fusion of the traditional with the contemporary. The east meets west and they live happily ever after.
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