I call this shawl Patang because its kite like motif is an adaptation of ancient motif of tessellating Rhombus or Lozenge emerging one after another.

Artisans have woven this shawl with their interpretation. Indigenous skill of weaving on back strap loom is adapted to their personal sense of creativity. Stripes, triangles, rhombus, checks all create an interwoven mesh spilling into each other’s geometry.

The presence of geometry in weaving contributes to the archaeological affirmations of human evolution into advanced mathematics to be as old as that of neolithic times, close to 12,000 years back. To weave, wear or watch an essence of humanity that has not aged over thousands of years is indeed thought provoking and goose bumpy!

To you I bring this Patang, as a metaphor of flight where our past gives us the wings to fly into the future with ancient wisdom yet mindful evolution!