Shawl

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Norwich (made)

Silk, woven on a harness-loom. In the middle there is a plain white rectangular panel. The rest is filled with closely-packed ornaments based on the "cone" devices of Kashmiri shawls. Colours are white, crimson, yellow, light crimson, green, black, and blue. At each end is a fringe formed from the warp threads.

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Categories	Textiles Accessories Womenswear Europeana Fashion Project
Object type	Shawl
Materials and techniques	Woven silk Silk (Textile) Weaving
Brief description	Shawl, jacquard-woven silk, made by Clabburn, Sons & Crisp, Norwich, retailed by Caley, 1862, a version shown in the 1862 Exhibition
Physical description	Silk, woven on a harness-loom. In the middle there is a plain white rectangular panel. The rest is filled with closely-packed ornaments based on the "cone" devices of Kashmiri shawls. Colours are white, crimson, yellow, light crimson, green, black, and blue. At each end is a fringe formed from the warp threads.
Dimensions	Length: 141in Width: 70in
Marks and inscriptions	'CALEY SHAWLMAN AND SILK MERCER TO THE QUEEN AND PRINCESS OF WALES. NORWICH / IMPORTER OF CONTINENTAL MANUFACTURES' (On label sewn on back)
Object history	Registered File no. 1929/11161.
Bibliographic references	Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion, edited by Lesley Ellis Miller and Ana Cabrera Lafuente with Claire Allen-Johnstone, Thames and Hudson Ltd. in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, 2021, pp. 170-171 Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2021. ISBN 978-0-500-48065-6. This object features in the publication Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion (2021)
Collection	Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number	T.177-1929

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O362894/shawl-unknown/

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