Intended for use as a garment, clothing. Textile, crimson silk scarf, Varanasi, ca. 1855 Shawl or scarf, fine crimson silk with diagonal bands of gold-wrapped thread in a floral design and a large circular design in the centre, surrounded by a circle of leaves and flowers, a buta at each corner in gold-wrapped thread; the borders have a latticework containing flowers in gold-wrapped thread, and bands of a chevron pattern. Complete piece.