Shawl
Cooper Hewitt

Shawl

mid-19th century

Medium: wool, silk Technique: black center and fringe: 2/2 twill panels and borders: complementary weft, patterned 3/1 twill (all panels and borders, including fringe, are woven, cut and attached)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Rectangular shawl with wide borders at each end and narrow borders on each side; made up of woven and cut pieces of fabric with a set-in black center or field. The primary border at each end contains five elaborately foliated cones. The ivory is silk throughout.

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