PAISLEY SHAWL
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
A rectangular wool Paisley shawl with small cream colored area in the center surrounded by a large multicolored Paisley pattern of botehs and cypress leaves. There is a fringe at the warp ends of the shawl. The colors used are cream, black, red, green, and brown. This may have been used as a throw for the couch in the library.
- Object name:
- PAISLEY SHAWL
- Made from:
- Wool
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- 20th c.
- Size:
- 312.4 × 166.4 cm (123 × 65 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 45.690
- Class:
- Linen
- Signature marks:
- trust seal illegible attached to the edge of the shawl This is a gray tag. wooden tag 4972v/Waille Kolep??/Sal'kovv/310X135/33p r.[rubles]/signature which is illegible Attached to the shawl This is a wooden tag with ink writing.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973