Paisley-style drawloom? square shawl, Norwich, 1800-1825
date: label: date made
content: 1800-1825
notes: label: Description
content: Paisley-style square shawl, Norwich, England, 1800-1825. Ground: 2 x 2 twill; patterning: 3 x 1 twill. Warp yarns: off white, silk and cotton alternating, except for selvages which are all silk, in white and green bands. Ground weft: off-white wool and silk. Pattern wefts: blue, green, red, pale yellow (tan), and yellow-green cotton and white silk/wool. Dimensions: 47 1/4 x 47 3/4". Pattern: Small scale, regularly spaced allover floral pattern, framed by a double border 9" deep, curving around the corners. Stylized flowers alternate with cones/buta/paisley motifs. It is woven entirely in one piece, including the borders. Each corner pattern is executed slightly differently. Ther is a break in the border design, in one section where the flower becomes a mirror-image figure instead of a straight repeat. Condition: Fair, with a few small holes throughout. The silk warps extending into the fringe are broken away. This was probably an early drawloom-woven shawl, possibly from Norwich, England during the first quarter of the 19th c.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Northwick
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. J. George Frain
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14184.000
label: catalog number
content: T14184.000
label: accession number
content: 272349
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shawl, Paisley-style
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool, silk, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: compound twill weave, supplementary weft patterned, drawloom-woven (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 47 1/4 in x 47 3/4 in; 120.015 cm x 121.285 cm