Design for Woven Shawl with Indianizing Motifs
date: label: Date
content: mid- 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Details of a design for woven shawl with Indianizing motifs, including paisley. Decoration consists of stripes. The two broadest stripes are decorated with rinceaux of the same design but of different colorings of the blossoms and buds. Only these are shown in the left stripe. The narrow stripes beside the broad ones show rosettes alternating with indistinct motifs. At right follows a stripe with a rinceau with many blossoms of various sizes. The stripe is framed by two narrow ones with leaves on waved stems.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: made in
content: Scotland
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1924-15-17
objectType: label: Type
content: textile designs
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor on oily tracing paper
label: Dimensions
content: 15.5 × 22 cm (6 1/8 × 8 11/16 in.)