Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 9. (Budapest, 1966)

IPARMŰVÉSZETI MÚZEUM — MUSÉE DES ARTS DECORATIFS - Horváth, Vera: Kashmir Shawls in the Museum of Applied Arts

20. Shawl, machine-woven, Turkey, about 1870 ness, because as long as the new type of embroidered shawl decoration did not take shape at an artistic level, the aim was to imitate the woven shawl as precisely as possible. The remaining pieces of the collection are mechanically made. Relying upon the applied corner ornament, the date of origin of a shawl (fig. 17.) can be estimated at the second half of the XlXth century. It is interesting to note that the weft floats on the left side of this piece were carefully removed. Un discernable on the surface, the very fine corner ornament is also mechanically woven. Despite the mechanical manufacturing, this shawl is assembled of several pieces, a fact suggestive of Oriental origin. Composed of small flowers, the cone in its striped girdle is of a strongly bent outline; however, the design shows a certain degree of stiffness. Details such as the distribution of the decoration and its location in two equal-sized rows, are strongly different from hand-woven Kashmir ornamentation. This piece may be regarded as an Indian copy made under European influence and probably after a European *— 19. Cover, machine-woven, Europe probably France, second half of XlXth century