Pieced Twill Tapestry Kashmir Shawl, 1850-70
date: label: date made
content: 1850 - 1870
notes: label: Description
content: Twill tapestry Kashmir shawl, 1850-70. Not quite a square (76" x 72"). Pieced from separately woven segments. 2 x 1 twill weave. All wool (cashmere goat?l yarns in the weave, sewing threads are not wool.The warp yarns in the pieces are mostly red shades. The shawl center's warps and wefts are black. Wefts are green, dark rose, red, blue, blue-green, black, white, yellow, and pink. Design: A small round black center framed by adjoining 5-sided sections within deep borders containing flower-filled cone or buta shapes and other motifs. The shorter sides (top and bottom) are finished with embroidered multi-colored patches with self-fringe- Harlequin borders. The whole is quite flat and smooth, with beautifully detailed motifs. Good quality shawl in excellent condition except for a few minor tears along seams. Kashmir, 1850s-60s.
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: Kashmir
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14704.00S
label: catalog number
content: T14704.00S
label: catalog number
content: T.14704-S
label: accession number
content: 280196
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shawl, Kashmir
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cashmere goat fleece (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: twill tapestry weave, pieced (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 76 in x 72 in; 193.04 cm x 182.88 cm