Toil of the Loom
From the Blog odysseuslahori'There are many qualities of wool in Sind [sic], black, brown and white. A good deal of it, especially of the black, is worked locally into blankets and saddle-bags.' Thus notes a British civil servant in the year 1906. He goes on to observe that in Tharparkar this wool is put to good use producing 'blankets', locally termed khatha. Similar to the kambli of the Deccan, this white-coloured product is, we are told, 'finer in texture, the wool of which it is made being superior.' *Patterning detail on a genuine black khatha* Produced on narrow width handlooms and used more as cold weather attire than as bedding, these are, properly, shawls. Woven in two feet width, two panels in length measuring nine feet each are sewn together to create a single piece. Intricately woven in brightlpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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