Question

how did the Europeans came to know about the Kashmiri shawl​

Answer 1

Answer:

Indian textiles began flooding European markets in the seventeenth century with the founding of the Dutch East India Company in 1597 and the English East India Company in 1600.This yearly trade provided the foundation for the great popularity of Kashmir shawl among fashionable European women in the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries . Kashmir had been woven since the fifteenth century,but European first became acquainted with them in the seventeenth century.