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Shawl

ca. 1925 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Evening shawl of hand woven silk and rayon. It has a fine black silk warp with rayon weft forming a broken twill ground. The weft is shaded from dark blue at each end, gradually through bright mid-blue, to a wide central area of steel grey. Each end has a stylised floral spray brocaded in yellow rayon. A long twisted rayon fringe bright blue at the ends and steel grey along the central area, is knotted into three edges. It has a lining of pale grey chiffon. The rayons were dyed with aniline dyestuffs.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hand woven silk and rayon, lined with chiffon, rayon dyed with aniline dyestuff
Brief description
Evening shawl of silk and rayon, designed and made by Ruth Lodge for Calimala, Great Britain, ca. 1925.
Physical description
Evening shawl of hand woven silk and rayon. It has a fine black silk warp with rayon weft forming a broken twill ground. The weft is shaded from dark blue at each end, gradually through bright mid-blue, to a wide central area of steel grey. Each end has a stylised floral spray brocaded in yellow rayon. A long twisted rayon fringe bright blue at the ends and steel grey along the central area, is knotted into three edges. It has a lining of pale grey chiffon. The rayons were dyed with aniline dyestuffs.
Dimensions
  • Length: 107in
  • Including fringes width: 52in
  • Length: 2.717m
  • Including fringes width: 1.321m
Marks and inscriptions
(The right hand side of the spray has Mrs. Lodge's monogram.)
Credit line
Given by Miss Janet Milne
Collection
Accession number
T.615-1974

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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