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The legancy-kinnauri shawl

Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh located on the Indo – Tibetan border still has a culture of its own. The finest but most time-consuming weaves in wool which is in the purest form.  The art and artists were cut off from the rest of the world, because for numerous reasons. Untouched regions, topography, climate, and most importantly their lack of trust in modern culture. Their techniques were stile and commercialized but still, they refuses to sell their ancestry.  There is no change in the usage of these shawls. Though a few households in the administrative headquarters of Kinnaur, reckong-peo, have little shops where they sell them locally but vastly they still weave them for their own.  History   The “wool road”, merely a donkey trail, was the traditional main trade route in the region, and was so important that it was later widened to  motorable width to improve trade in the region and came to be known as the Hindus tan-Tibet road”. Two groups of artis...