Shawl
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1860
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A square shawl with a symmetrical design radiating toward each corner from a central black field. Swirling patterns in shades of red, yellow, violet, and green, with minute floral elements used as pattern filler. Larger pattern areas are outlined with sinuous lines of solid white or black. The harlequin borders are additionally patterned with embroidery.
label: Description
content: The shawl is made up of hundreds of small sections of tapestry – some are as small as a few centimeters wide. The patches follow the curvilinear outlines of the pattern. This method allows different color warps to be used, as seen in the solid color fields of black, purple, red and white.
place: label: made in
content: Kashmir, India for European market
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Harmon H. Goldstone
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2002-2-1
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Shawl
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cashmere Technique: 2/2 twill with discontinuous wefts (tapestry) with double-interlocking; embroidered borders, pieced together Label: cashmere wool double-interlocked twill tapestry with embroidered borders, pieced together
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 208 x 207 cm (81 7/8 x 81 1/2 in.)