Small black center with borders of red and purple with white and yellow; embroidered compartmentalized border - 3 1/2"; ?1/2"(3 or 2 or 13 or ???) woven inner border, primarily white; woven in pieces.
shawls
embroidering
wool (textile)
Shawl
Shawl
Arabic letters. According to Nancy Rexford - inner white border woven with initials ""ER(?)"" ""*73532"" with sealing wax = tax stamp, import stamp.
Unknown
India
78 (W) (inches)
1923.580
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