A FEATHER SHAWL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6603, 23 May 1925, Page 3

A FEATHER SHAWL.

AT THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION

One of the most noteworthy and admired exhibits in the Indian Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition was a wonderful shawl mdre rare and lovely than could be tinted by artifice or woven by machinery. , Nature supplied the exquisitely coloured material delicately wrought into a shawl 7a yards long and 58in wide.

Birds’ feathers, soft as thistle down, gathered, we are assured, during the moulting season, have been carefully collected for years and converted by marvellous skill and patient industry into a wrap so deliciously supple that rolled up, it can be passed through a wedding ring.