Shawl : a today's accessory

Today's Shawl, a discreet elegance

Shawl is one of the most appreciated outfit accessories at present, and its colours, its pretty decors and the softness of its matter allows you to wear it elegantly around your shoulders or your waist.

It is possible to made a shawl in almost all matters, but the nicest to hit, the most elegant and those generally appraised by the customers are wool, flax, cotton, silk or goat's down.

We can find the first mention of shawl in the Bible, but some documents seems to carry its origin from even more postponed times.
The nice modern shawl has however a well known origin: the Kashmir, which was at the 17th century infatuation origin.

The great shawl success after the French Revolution

From revival times, and especially from French revolution, shawl had become a very in fashion accessory, which was in good taste to give to his wife as a present.
That's how Napoleon gave many Kashmir Shawls to his wife Josephine.

After the discovery of the North India production's shawl (Kashmir) and Persian cloths, Europe embraced voluptuously this new fashion.

It was the originality, the proliferation of ideas and the wealth of embroideries which most impressed, either the industry specialists, and the customers.
Everyone didn't dream more than to buy one for themselves, or to have such wonders given.

The Indian shawl had a softness and an incomparable delicacy which came from Tibet goat's down with which they were made off.

The Tibet goats live in extreme conditions, impossible to reproduce in Europe.
So the textile industry of that time had to shut on the wool working, trying to produce shawl of a similar quality.

The public infatuation for the Kashmir shawl caused a considerable increasing power of the wool industry, which fell again a little at the beginning of the 20th century.

The shawl, a new attraction

However, new production techniques allowing to lower costs in a considerable way, the shawl knows a certain renewal interest for some years.

The shawl corresponds well to our epoch way of life.
It takes place or comes out in a twinkle, allows us to do it with elegance, and its reasonable cost allows us to own several ones.

Tastes and colours are a personal affair.
It's why there is a very broad range of styles, materials, textures and colours which allow the shawl to answer to all situations.

Whatever is your search, your need or your desire, you will find surely the dimension which is suitable for you in the broad range of current production.

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