Paisley-style woven shawl; 1875-1900
date: label: date made
content: 1875-1900
notes: label: Description
content: Paisley style jacquard-woven shawl; 1875-1900. 2 x 2 twill weave with supplementary pattern yarns. Warp: white, 2 twist, single wool ground. Weft: ground is white, 2 twist, single, wool; pattern wefts are gold metallic, yellow, green, and purple s-twist. 50" L x 50 1/2" W, plus 10 1/4" long fringe on all four sides. The field is solid white, with a 6" diameter metallic figure in the center; Metallic cone or buta or paisley motifs in each corner, all framed by metallic borders with touches of yellow, purple, and green. The border is rigidly patterned with small cones/buta/paisley motifs. A heavy knotted silk fringe, 10 1/4" long, finishes all edges. Fair condition, with moth holes throughout. Possibly Paisley, 4th quarter 19th century.
label: Description
content: Said by the donor to have been owned by Mrs. Edwin McMaster Stanton, wife of the Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln. Stanton's second wife was Ellen M. Hutchison, married 1856. She died in Nov. 1873, He died in 1869. The donor's information came from his first wife, Eleanora Maria Chamberlain Van Swearingen, whose family story claimed the shawls in this donation were all owned by her great grandmother, Mrs. Stanton.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Europe
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Capt. E. K. Van Swearingen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14706.000
label: catalog number
content: T14706.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shawl, Paisley-style
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool, metallic yarns (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: compound twill weave, supplementary weft patterning, jacquard-woven (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 50 in x 50 1/2 in; 127 cm x 128.27 cm