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the ioins like u sash; III vet another, Il
is svathed around the body like shirt.
Whsneser worn u all, IL Il INC pot ~
ticle Of dress. From time beyond
computation thessheep Of Caahmere have
been cherished on their hills, and the
goats'of Thibet on their plains, and the
camels Of Tartary on their steppes, Ia
furnish materials for the choicest shawls.
From time anmamorial the patterns
which We know SO well have been hand
cd down 20 half sacred traditi,n thro'
a Hiadco ancestry. which puts even
Welsh pedigrees TO shame. Forthous-
ands of years have the bright dyes, which
are the despair Of our science and art,
been glittering in Indian looms, ia those
prmitive pits vnIer the palm tree, where
the6whimsical patterns grow like the wild
flowers springing from the soil. For
thousands Of years have Eastern poten-
tates made presents Of shawls 10 distin
Euished strangers, together with dia-
monds and pearls. %
At the Russian court. ladies' Judge
each other by their shawls as by their
diamonds. In France the bridegroom
wins favor by ajudicious gift ofthis kind.
In Cairo and Damascus the gift of a
shawl will scause as much heart-burning
an the 'harem as the introduction Of a new
WHO In England, the daughter Of a
house spends the whole Of her first quar-
er's advance ia the purchase of a
shawl. The Paris grisette and the Lon
don dress-maker go to their work with a
little shawl pinned neatly at the waist.
The lost ginger-drinker covers her rags
with the remnant Of shawl of better
days. The peasants daughter buys a
white cotton shawl, with a gay border,
for her wedding; and it washes at dyes
until having wrapped all her babies in
turn, It Is finally died black to signalize
her widowhood. The maiden aunt.
growing elderly, takes. ito wearing d
shawliin nad-winter; and the aged grand
mother would no. more think Of going
wiihou. it any season than without her
cap. 3tssg M "a 34,s .fa VI s8fs
sharpe 5 London Magazine recently
madam interesting article on Cashmere
Shawls, from which we learn that the
fine wool ofthe Cashmere goat is shorn
IA the spring. shortly before the warm
season. the time when the animal, in its
natural state, seeks thorns and hedges
IN order to free itself from the burden Of
As warm covering. Ali the hard and
long hairs are picked out most carefully.
Tho wool thus purified is first washed in
warm solution ofpotash, and afterward
'nacold water, IN which process felsing
must be carefully avoided 1t is then
bleached upon the grass and carded for
spinning. uo Nss5a sts9 5e14 ae.
The shawl wool IS three times dyed
before carding, after spinning, and in
the wool. The Asiatics avoid spinning
the wool hard, in q, der that the shawis
may be soft. They use spindle which
consists Of a ball Of clay, with an iron
wire attached. The finger and the
thumb of.the spinner are kept smoothe
by steatite powder.stA large shawl of
the finest ssality requires five pounds Of
wool; one ofinferior quality, from three
to four pounds. About 80, 600 sha wi,
are made yearly, in l6, 900 looms, each
OF which employs three workmen.
The Cashmere goat has been intro
duced into France, England, South Car
DINA, and Tennessee TheyuIue ofthe
dock may be estimated from the fact that
no real fhibetagoat ever has been sold
leriess than . Thousand dollars. This
enormous price, moreover, is not spe-
cnlative one for no Aeeced animal has
wool of such fneness, softness and do
rability The wool of all the Thipet
goats in Tennessee, for example, has
been, engaged at New York this year at
eight dellass and half Spound, the
purchasers designing to send it to Pals
ley, in Scotland, ia order to be manu-
featured into shawls. a4si .gJs5 81
The prices paid for real Cashmere
shawlS, or those woven in India, have
sometimes been almost fabulous. A full
sized shawl, such us is called in Ameri-
CD . long shawl, ordinarily commands ia
Paris Or London from FIVE hundred to
Eve thousand dollars, according to the
qdaiitys Scarfs and square shawIs be-
ing smaller, sell for less. II Is mist Ike
however, to suppose that all these shawls
ars manufactured Ia India in the shape
in which they are sold here. Generals
u, indead, theaceatras and borders come
out separately and are put together af.
ferward n sizes and often patterns to
suit esAoAeFss Moseover, 4 large por-
tioa III tho sfawls sod 40 real II,dia ones
ale aattually made IN France; for the
Ihibet goat wan introduced intosthat
cSdatt moFs tisaa thirty years ago, laod
tho ca6hmsss - VII imilatsd with con.
Siderable skiba-i Judges of The article
preteads 40 n.y. however, that tke real
lhdia shawi can ~ detected BY lie lav-
inn l&sss evenly apov4 web sa /. { q 1;.@,,.