Shawl
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
notes: label: Description
content: Square Kashmir shawl with a design of cones primarily in reds, with an open ivory field. Each cone is 10 1/2 inches high, and is compartmented by a narrow border of floral vines. Currently the shawl has wide borders on two adjacent sides and narrow borders on the two remaining sides. It has been re-made from fragments of a long shawl. Originally each end would have had a wide border nine cones in width: one side of the square version has the full nine cone pattern, the other has seven cones. The two remaining cones exist as a separate fragment (1958-148-5b). The narrow guard border of a similar floral vine has been stitched to the two remaining sides. In this way the shawl could be folded diagonally to form the triangular shawl popular in the mid-19th century.
place: label: made in
content: India
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lea S. Luquer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1958-148-5-a
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Shawl
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: wool, cashmere Technique: tapestry weave, interlocking twill and embroidery Weave: single faced 2/2 twill tapestry, double interlocked, two color complimentary weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 147 x 144 cm (57 7/8 x 56 11/16 in.)