Wrapped in Beauty: The Koelz Collection of Kashmiri Shawls
by Grace Beardsley, Carla M Sinopoli and Kathleen D. Morrison
University of Michigan Press, 2005
Paper: 978-0-915703-60-9 | eISBN: 978-1-949098-79-2 (standard)
Library of Congress Classification GN2.M5 no.93
Dewey Decimal Classification 391.44
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This richly illustrated volume examines the remarkable Kashmiri shawls of the Walter Koelz Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Part I presents the history, production, forms, and ornamentation of Kashmiri shawls, focusing on the impact of social contexts and the advent of the Jacquard loom on shawl development. Part II is a detailed descriptive catalogue of the shawls in the Koelz Collection. An accompanying CD-ROM includes color illustrations of the shawls in the collection as well as a transcribed manuscript by Koelz.
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