AN INDIAN EMBROIDERED CREAM-COLOURED PASHMINA WOOL ROBE
Kashmir, North India, early 20th century

With a flowing and flared A-line profile, the undyed and unbleached pashmina ground of twill weave, the back panel, edges, cuffs, hems finely worked in polychrome wools with intertwined buti (paisley leaves), the front with six pairs of looped metal thread frogging and brass spherical buttons, the inner front, pockets’ edges and cuffs of bias-cut puce silk, lined in cream-coloured silk, interlined in white cotton.

133cm long from the nape