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An Azerbaijani bride with an engagement shawl Maxida Märak wearing a traditional Saami wool shawl onstage at Riddu Riđđu 2019. A shawl (from Persian: شال shāl, [1]) is a simple item of clothing, loosely worn over the shoulders, upper body and arms, and sometimes also over the head.
The term Galway shawl (Irish: seál na Gaillimhe) [1] usually refers to a specific type of heavyweight shawl that was worn by Irish women during the colder seasons. It became popular during the late nineteenth century [ 2 ] and was still being worn up until the 1950s by a few, older Irish women.
Dancing woman wearing dupatta, detail from Kalpa Sutra manuscript, c.1300s. Early evidence of the dupatta can be traced to the Indus valley civilization, where the sculpture of a priest-king whose left shoulder is covered with some kind of a shawl-like scarf suggests that the use of the dupatta dates back to this early Indic culture.
A tallit [a] is a fringed garment worn as a prayer shawl by religious Jews. The tallit has special twined and knotted fringes known as tzitzit attached to its four corners. The cloth part is known as the beged ("garment") and is usually made from wool or cotton, although silk is sometimes used for a tallit gadol. The term is, to an extent ...
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The U.S. embassy in Ukraine says Russia could launch a "significant air attack" on Kyiv after U.S.-made missiles were fired into Russia's Bryansk region.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The mother of Austin Tice, a U.S. journalist captured over 12 years ago in Syria, said on Friday that her family had information that he is still alive. “We have from a ...
A 38-year-old man has been jailed in France for raping his teenage daughter for years and inviting other men, many of them much older, to join in the abuse.