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Embroidered Items from Chitral (North Pakistan).

Embroidered utensils from Chitral, North Pakistan, before 1938. Embroidered utensils from Chitral, North Pakistan, before 1938. Copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, acc. nos. IM.49-1938; IM.48-1938; IM.47-1938; IM.45-1938.

The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has acquired a number of embroidered items that derive from Chitral, in the extreme north of modern Pakistan. The items date to before 1938.

They include a cotton purse with silk thread embroidery and a green cotton tying string; a woman's head band made of cotton with silk thread floral-pattern embroidery and tassels at each end made of cotton, silk and silver thread; another woman's head band, also made of cotton with silk thread geometric-pattern embroidery (perhaps based on stylised horns) and with tassels at each end; and a knife-holder, made of cotton with silk-thread embroidery with geometric patterns, and with a tying string made of red cotton, with tassels of silk and silver thread, ending in roundels.

V&A online catalogue (retrieved 18 June 2016).

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