Jamawar

Jamawar, or gown piece,[1] is a special type of shawl made in Kashmir.

The brocaded parts are woven in similar threads of silk or polyester.

[4] Traders introduced this Chinese silk cloth to India, mainly from Samarkand and Bukhara and it gained immense popularity among the royalty and the aristocracy.

Kings and nobles bought the woven fabric by the yard, wearing it as a gown or using it as a wrap or shawl.

[5][6] Due to its rich and fine raw materials, the rich and powerful merchants used Jamawar and noblemen of the time, who could not only afford it but could even commission the weavers to make the fabric for them, as in the case of the Mughals.