Headscarf or shawl for ceremonial occasions

In northern India and Pakistan, in the Punjab (on both sides of the 1947 border) and in Haryana (which is separated from it), large (approx. 1.5 x 2.5 m) cloths are characteristic embroidery, which are worn by local women as headdresses, shawls (chador, chadar).\The general name is phulkari (= flowerwork): stylized flowers, people, birds, geometric forms are embroidered on the cotton background in…