Another delicious shawl. The centre changeable silk colouring was achieved using a royal blue warp thread with a brown weft thread.
The twill weave shot silk blue and brown centre with deep end borders with multi flower blooms in yellow, soft terracotta, green, silver on a blue ground, below a slanting stylised leaf border, above two rows of flowerheads, all outlined with striped shaded green and yellow lines, simialr side borders, 9 ft x 32 1/2 in/2.7m x 82 cm
Fantastic. Hardly noticeable. Only one little area where the threads have pulled to the centre. Ask for photo.
Similar stoles can be found in most dress museum collections, including Victoria & Albert Museum, Whitworth, Manchester and Bath Costume Museum. In America the DAR museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Colonial Williamsburg has some, as well as numerous other museums.
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