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TextileGI Tagged · 2004-05
Kullu Shawl
TownKullu
StateHimachal Pradesh
Craft typeTextile
GI tag2004-05
About
Warm handwoven wool shawls in geometric patterns, woven on traditional pit looms by artisans in the Kullu valley, distinguished by their vivid multicoloured borders framing a comparatively plain body.
Did you know? Kullu shawl weaving got a major stylistic shift in the 1940s when Tibetan refugee weavers who settled in the valley introduced more elaborate, colourful patterned borders that became the shawl's signature look.