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Lahori chaddar

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A type of shawl

Lahori chaddar (meaning "soft wool wrapper") were plain shawls made with soft goat hair fibre (Kabuli Pashm, Pashm (پشم) meaning "wool") that were produced in Punjab in the early 19th century. The name itself suggests the chaddar (sheets) made in Lahore.

See also

List of English words of Persian origin

References

Balfour, Edward (1873). Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific: Products of the Mineral, Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures. Scottish and Adelphi Presses. p. 270.
Watson, John F. (1873). Vienna Universal Exhibition 1873. A Classified and Descriptive Catalogue of the Indian Department. Allen. p. 129.

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