The Kashmiri Jamawar: Cloth, Craft, and Cultural Memory
Jamawar textiles emerged from a long history of exchange across Persia and South Asia, shaped by trade, migration, and courtly patronage. First circulating through Persianate networks, these densely patterned textiles travelled into the Indian subcontinent, where they were absorbed into local systems of making and dress. By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kashmir had become the most important centre for jamawar production.
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