Shawl
1862 (made)
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Woven woollen shawl with a design repeat that fills a quarter of the shawl. Round all the four sides, within the two decorated shallow end panels, runs a stylised meander with four flowerheads haloed by rings reserved in the filling pattern. At each corner of the main design, a palmette fans out from an arc woven with the name 'D Speirs & Co' (reserved on two corners). Three huge arches containing elongated sinuous pines, their outlines spouting little flowers, are set against an elaborately detailed variety of filling patterns. The centre sides have less high arches. At the centre the points of the central end arches meet to flow out into gothic foliate ornament to either side. No plain ground is to be seen except in the brightly coloured harlequin end pieces.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Woven in 3/1 twill in wool on a wool and silk warp, in bright red, pink, pale blue, yellow-green, dull yellow, white and black. Mixed threads and proximity of single threads of different colours give the impression of more than seven colours. Selvedges are green, weft-faced. The warp fringe is knotted for 3 inches at each side. |
| Brief description | Woven woollen shawl, made by David Speirs & Co., Paisley, 1862 |
| Physical description | Woven woollen shawl with a design repeat that fills a quarter of the shawl. Round all the four sides, within the two decorated shallow end panels, runs a stylised meander with four flowerheads haloed by rings reserved in the filling pattern. At each corner of the main design, a palmette fans out from an arc woven with the name 'D Speirs & Co' (reserved on two corners). Three huge arches containing elongated sinuous pines, their outlines spouting little flowers, are set against an elaborately detailed variety of filling patterns. The centre sides have less high arches. At the centre the points of the central end arches meet to flow out into gothic foliate ornament to either side. No plain ground is to be seen except in the brightly coloured harlequin end pieces. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'D Speirs & Co' (reserved on two corners)
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| Object history | This shawl is almost the same design as the shawl woven with the name D Speirs & Co in the Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, woven for that firm by James Leggat, Paisley, and exhibited in 1862, Class XXI, no 4147. In the two areas where it differs in design from the shawl in Paisley, this shawl is in fact superior. The decorated ends have six main panel designs to the four found in the Paisley example, and the rather ugly centre there, superimposed on the main pattern so that one side does not flow into the repeat on the other, is here a logicval filling linking arches on all four sides to make a unified, continuous design. |
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| Accession number | T.223-1984 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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