Shawl
The shawl is a large part of fabric which one drapes on the shoulder S or which one sometimes carries around the neck or on the head to the manner of a veil.
Generally made Wool, it is broader than a scarf. Often furnished with fringes, it is distinguished from the Foulard, generally made Soie or of Coton, but it can be like forms some to him of rectangle, square or triangle.
History
The word shawl comes from the Persan “ shal ” or “ chaale ”. The object itself was however extremely widespread in the Antiquité, in particular in Central Asia, India and Occidental Asia.
Simple Clothing being used to be held hot, it also played in certain cultures a symbolic system part and ritual, such as for example the Talit whose employment, described already in the Torah, remains still today.
Introduced very early in Europe, perhaps into the 12th century, the time of the Crusade S, or perhaps even before this period, during the migrations of the Rroms from India of the North-West and the plate Iran IEN, the shawl was integrated in many regional costumes, as well in Russia as in the Europe of the East. But undoubtedly of other versions of the shawl there existed before. The great vogue of the shawl in Western Europe goes back to XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries and was a consequence of the British occupation of India. At that time existed two important centers of manufacture, the Perse and the Cachemire, which competed with which would produce the shawls finest or most sumptuously embroidered. Between 1800 and 1850, the third rival industry is established in Scotland, with Paisley in the Renfrewshire, which produced a particular type of shawl, whose reasons in the shape of drop were strongly stylized. Since the Great Britain, the shawl of the Indian type gained the France quickly, where he knew a considerable popularity with XVIIIe and XIXe centuries.
In Persia, the shawl frequently went around the size at the men. Whereas in India, it is carried indifferently by the two sexes, the shawl was established in Occident like a primarily female clothing.
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