Shawl
ca. 1830-1840 (made)
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Turnover shawl put together from different pieces including borders and applied corner pieces. The corner-pieces in the wide border has been made to fit by adding a narrow border on two of its sides. Quarter-moon in the corner of the narrow borders.
Wide border with harlequin compartments 12 inches by 5.625 inches in pale green, black, white and yellow. Each contains a symmetrical pine with small leaves on stems from the main stem at the base to a height of 3 inches, then large heads of shawl-flowers. The pine is surrounded by small flowers, leaving only an outline empty. Colours are scarlet, red, pink, blue-green, grey, white and yellow.
The corner piece, on a black ground, is a large pine that has turned into a rectangular bunch of shawl-flowers angled from the corner whence spring two guards of flowers to fill the two outer edges of the square. Outside these are two rows of guard-stripe cresting, turning a proper corner, from possibly a difference source.
Guard-stripes to the wide border and corner-piece, carried around the shawl as the narrow border have a small, fat and angled pine alternating with a sprawl of shawl-flowers filling the spaces between. An outer guard of white carries a floral meander. Colours for the corner piece and guard-stripe are as for the wide border, except that a light brown, stone colour, takes the place of the grey, and there is a lighter intense blue.
The quarter-moon is applied in the corner between the narrow guard-stripe borders. The black ground of the shawl is cut away behind it. Its pattern is of crossing and interlacing angled pines on a scarlet ground, with a cresting of plants on white. Black cloth with fringe is applied all round the edge of the shawl.
Wide border with harlequin compartments 12 inches by 5.625 inches in pale green, black, white and yellow. Each contains a symmetrical pine with small leaves on stems from the main stem at the base to a height of 3 inches, then large heads of shawl-flowers. The pine is surrounded by small flowers, leaving only an outline empty. Colours are scarlet, red, pink, blue-green, grey, white and yellow.
The corner piece, on a black ground, is a large pine that has turned into a rectangular bunch of shawl-flowers angled from the corner whence spring two guards of flowers to fill the two outer edges of the square. Outside these are two rows of guard-stripe cresting, turning a proper corner, from possibly a difference source.
Guard-stripes to the wide border and corner-piece, carried around the shawl as the narrow border have a small, fat and angled pine alternating with a sprawl of shawl-flowers filling the spaces between. An outer guard of white carries a floral meander. Colours for the corner piece and guard-stripe are as for the wide border, except that a light brown, stone colour, takes the place of the grey, and there is a lighter intense blue.
The quarter-moon is applied in the corner between the narrow guard-stripe borders. The black ground of the shawl is cut away behind it. Its pattern is of crossing and interlacing angled pines on a scarlet ground, with a cresting of plants on white. Black cloth with fringe is applied all round the edge of the shawl.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Woven and applied work |
| Brief description | Turnover shawl with woven and applied work, made by Gibb and MacDonald, Edinburgh, ca. 1830-1840 |
| Physical description | Turnover shawl put together from different pieces including borders and applied corner pieces. The corner-pieces in the wide border has been made to fit by adding a narrow border on two of its sides. Quarter-moon in the corner of the narrow borders. Wide border with harlequin compartments 12 inches by 5.625 inches in pale green, black, white and yellow. Each contains a symmetrical pine with small leaves on stems from the main stem at the base to a height of 3 inches, then large heads of shawl-flowers. The pine is surrounded by small flowers, leaving only an outline empty. Colours are scarlet, red, pink, blue-green, grey, white and yellow. The corner piece, on a black ground, is a large pine that has turned into a rectangular bunch of shawl-flowers angled from the corner whence spring two guards of flowers to fill the two outer edges of the square. Outside these are two rows of guard-stripe cresting, turning a proper corner, from possibly a difference source. Guard-stripes to the wide border and corner-piece, carried around the shawl as the narrow border have a small, fat and angled pine alternating with a sprawl of shawl-flowers filling the spaces between. An outer guard of white carries a floral meander. Colours for the corner piece and guard-stripe are as for the wide border, except that a light brown, stone colour, takes the place of the grey, and there is a lighter intense blue. The quarter-moon is applied in the corner between the narrow guard-stripe borders. The black ground of the shawl is cut away behind it. Its pattern is of crossing and interlacing angled pines on a scarlet ground, with a cresting of plants on white. Black cloth with fringe is applied all round the edge of the shawl. |
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| Accession number | T.66-1981 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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