Paisley-style shawl, possibly Nimes, France, late1840s
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1840s
notes: label: Description
content: Paisley style jacquard-woven shawl, possibly Nimes, France, late 1840s.(Analysis from W. Hefford, 1986. 3/1 twill weave; white warps S-twist; white ground weft Z-twist. Both: wool? Pattern wefts, predominatly dark blue with red, yellow, and green. Z-twist singles, wool. 66" x 61" plus 2 3/4" fringe top and bottom. Predominantly white shawl with Indian-inspired patterning of arched borders made up of tiny spots of colored flowers and cones or buta motifs. A very narrow (1") band frames the whole. Top and bottom borders have handstitched white wool fabric end finishes, concealing ragged edge and adding a self fringe. Nice restrained design. Good condition except for yellow spots scattered throughout.
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: France: Occitanie, Nîmes
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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.T14705.00S
label: catalog number
content: T14705.00S
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shawl, Paisley-style
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: compound twill weave, supplementary weft patterned (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 66 in x 61 in; 167.64 cm x 154.94 cm