Shawl Supplier

Reference No : 818575

Business Lead : Selling Offer

We would like to offer stock of Paisley Patterns Prayer Shawls.

Material : Wool

Size : 106" x 55"

Price : $146.97, $132.27( Sale Price )

Wash : Dry clean only

Description : Prayer Shawls are meant to keep the body warm during prayers and meditation. This wrap dress is used by both men and women and is large enough to cover the entire body while sitting in meditation postures. The designs on these prayer shawls are quite similar to those of paisley shawls, i.e. jacquard weaving in Indian motifs and patterns. Shawl weaving was a prestigious vocation in India, and was reserved for men. It was extremely time consuming too. Two Indian weavers, sitting side by side at the loom, could take up to three years to produce a top quality shawl, the price of which might be equivalent to that of a house. When women in the west fell in love with these Indian imports, European weavers attempted to produce a similar product at a lesser price, which resulted in the invention of the jacquard loom. In the first half of the 19th century, Europeans copied the designs of these Indian shawls. One of the towns where the shawls were produced was Paisley, near Glasgow, whose name became synonymous with both the shawls and the teardrop or pinecone motif, which decorated them. Paisley pattern is a droplet shaped vegetable motif, also called buta, similar to half of the Yin yang symbo