Cashmere : a French passion 1800-1880 / Monique Lévi-Strauss ; phographs of the shawls from the Etro collection and the author's collection by Massimo Listri.
"The delicate beauty of the cashmere shawl was first brought to Europe by the East India Companies and Napoleon's campaigns. Woven in Kashmir, its fabric was so light that, according to legend, a whole shawl could be passed through a finger ring. Exquisite and expensive, by the nineteenth century th...
| Uniform Title: | Cachemires.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Thames & Hudson,
2013.
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| Physical Description: | 320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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