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Shawl

1839 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The border of a shawl on a cream silk ground. In the deep border at the end, fern like foliage, in the ends of gigantic elongated cones, grows through Gothic windows and arches. In the narrow border at the end, the lower sections of these cones alternate with roundels, resembling window lights. At the corner of this narrow border is a Chinese pot, square in shape, from which a plant with large, feathery flowers grows along the narrow side border.

Colours include cream, red, lime green, dark grey-ish blue, white, pale lilac-pink, bound with creamy yellow silk in the field, purple silk in the border and sage green silk in the outer guard stripe, giving different colours on the surface. The white and blue are cotton, other wefts are wool.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Woven silk, wool and cotton
Brief description
Shawl end of woven silk, wool and cotton, French, designed by Herault and Léon, woven by Bournhonet, Paris, 1839
Physical description
The border of a shawl on a cream silk ground. In the deep border at the end, fern like foliage, in the ends of gigantic elongated cones, grows through Gothic windows and arches. In the narrow border at the end, the lower sections of these cones alternate with roundels, resembling window lights. At the corner of this narrow border is a Chinese pot, square in shape, from which a plant with large, feathery flowers grows along the narrow side border.

Colours include cream, red, lime green, dark grey-ish blue, white, pale lilac-pink, bound with creamy yellow silk in the field, purple silk in the border and sage green silk in the outer guard stripe, giving different colours on the surface. The white and blue are cotton, other wefts are wool.

Dimensions
  • Width: 1410mm
  • Length: 540mm
Credit line
Given by Miss D.B. Simpson
Collection
Accession number
T.394-1976

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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