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Four Colour Striped
c. 1860


Another stunning shawl. Most unusual to have two widths of stripes.


Cataloguing


long shawl of wool and silk, with two wide centre stripes of black and cream, and two narrower outer stripes of ochre and turquoise, all covered with small gently curving pines filled with surrounded by foliage, all in shades of mid blue and green, red, pink and orange, epaulette border with turquoise, black and cream fringing, 5 ft 5 in.x 112 ft 4 in; 1.65 x 3.40 m


Condition


Excellent apart from a little group of three small brown marks to the turquoise border - might even have been from the printer dropping ink.