Shawl

 Scarf - known since ancient times as a headdress square piece of cloth or openwork fabric. Used as a coating head and shoulders. In many countries, the handkerchief - a mandatory part of the traditional national costume and a constant component of some kinds of rituals. Shawls originally woven from flax, cotton and wool. Often decorated with lace, fringe, embroidery, and tied, usually three ways: under the chin front, back and encircling the head. Widespread in the late XIX - early XX century factory got cashmere and silk scarves. In Russia and abroad universal fame earned domestic Orenburg downy shawls from specially tanned thin yarn and wool stuffed Pavlovsky Posad shawls, got their name-brands from the point of initial production.