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Pashmina blankets were also part of a wealthy woman's dowry in India, Pakistan and Nepal. [14] In nineteenth-century English literature Kashmiri shawls were coded as women's luxuries. They acquired the status of heirlooms, worn by a girl on her marriage and coming-of-age. [15] They were inherited rather than purchased. [16]
Blended fabrics of shahtoosh and pashmina are designated differently according to the proportions: Shurah Dani = 100% Shahtoosh, Bah Dani = 75% Shahtoosh and 25% Pashmina, Aeth Dani = 50% Shahtoosh (as warp) and 50% Pashmina (as weft). [9] Shawls for women are often 2 m × 1 m in size and weigh circa 100 g, while shawls for men are often 3 m × ...
The principal aspects of the shawl are its distinctive Kashmiri weaving technique and fine wool. [1] However, the Kashmir shawl's definition has varied in time and place, depending on various factors such as the material used and its cost, the method of construction, the intended use, and the status of the wearer. [1]
Portrait of Doña Isabel de Requesens y Enríquez de Cardona-Anglesola is an oil painting dated circa 1518 that was formerly believed to depict Giovanna d'Aragona.It has been variously ascribed to Raphael, Giulio Romano, or the school of Raphael; it is now usually taken to have been executed by Giulio Romano based on a sketch by Raphael and then altered by Raphael.
Phallic saints are representations of actual saints or local deities who are invoked for fertility.More than vulgar representations of the phallus, phallic saints are benevolent symbols of prolificacy and reproductive fruitfulness, and objects of reverence and especial worship among barren women and young girls.
Violant was born in Zaragoza, the daughter of King James I of Aragon (1213–1276) and his second wife, Violant of Hungary (ca.1215-1253). [1] Her maternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Yolanda de Courtenay.
Ferdinand I of Aragon is the chosen one, of the Castilian House of Trastámara, but also directly connected with the Aragonese king Peter IV of Aragon, through his mother Eleanor of Aragon. Aragon was already a large-scale political entity: the Crown, the Cortes , the Deputation of the Kingdom and the Foral Law constituted its nature and its ...
Maud was born on 6 April 1490 [2] [3] or, 1492 in Northamptonshire, the daughter of Sir Thomas Green, of Boughton and Green's Norton, [4] and Joan Fogge, daughter of Sir John Fogge.